On Thu, 18 May 2006 08:30:03 +0000, Duncan Booth wrote: > PoD wrote: >> How many levels of indentation does 12 spaces indicate? >> It could be 1,2,3,4,6 or 12. If you say it's 3 then you are >> _implying_ that each level is represented by 4 spaces. > > By reading the code I can see how many levels of indentation it > represents. > >> How many levels of indentation is 3 tabs? 3 levels in any code that >> you will find in the wild. > > No. That is precisely the problem: there is code in the wild which > contains mixed space and tab indentation, and any time that happens 3 > tabs could mean any number of indentations.
I think it is universally accepted that mixed tabs and spaces is indeed **EVIL** I should have said any code using tabs exclusively. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
