Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Duncan has hit the nail on the head here really. I totally > agree that conceptually using tabs for indentation is better than using > spaces.
As a programmer tabs appeal to our sense of neatness in python code. One tab for each level of indent - very nice. Back in the last century when I wrote nothing but assembler in a series of primitive text editors I would have agreed with you. Tabs rule! label TAB opcode TAB arguments TAB ; comment. > Pragmatically though, you can't tell in an editor where spaces > are used and where tabs are used. Now-a-days when I am writing Python, I just use emacs which indents perfectly. I press tab and emacs inserts the correct of indentation. Most of the time I don't have to press tab at all - emacs knows how much indentation I need. I don't actually care whether emacs inserts spaces or tabs (spaces actually), it works, looks nice and follows PEP 8. It's a lot less keystrokes than writing assember too ;-) If you are writing python using "cat" or "ed" then tabs might matter again, but for any modern editor with a python mode it really doesn't matter! > The following quote sums things up nicely I think: > > "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in > practice there is." ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
