> Not that it's relevant, but I've never actually encountered anyone who > mixed tabs and spaces.. I've lived a sheltered life I guess.
It's not individuals using a mixture, but when working in a development team of some kind. Consider person A who writes a file using spaces for indent. Person B then edits that file, adding a few lines of code, indenting using tabs. It could soon get messy! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list