In my experience (using emacs which puts tabs in) there has never been a problem in .py files, but .pyx files would fail to build unless I use the emacs "untabify" command before rebuilding a file I have edited.
John 2009/4/22 mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>: > > Hello folks, > > up to now the rules on tabs in Sage library sources has been "don't > use them", but there was never any enforcement and/or systematic > detection since no side effect of using tabs has even been detected. > As it turns out #5653 exposes a case where tabs cause problems when > rendering docstrings in a pretty way in the notebook. > > At #5848 John Palmieri posted a patch converting all tabs in the Sage > library to spaces. This kind of patch is likely to break some patches > that used to work and it is generally not too nice to do "white space > only" patches for exactly that reason. But this case is somewhat > special since it will allow #5653 to work better and once you have > seen that patch in action in the notebook you will likely agree that a > little short term pain is well worth the potential rebasing problem. > > If this goes into 3.4.1.final it needs to be done soon, i.e. less than > two hours. John is happy to rebase the patch at #5848, so it could be > the last patch to go into 3.4.2, too, for example. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
