[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

Eric V. Smith added the comment: Thanks, Serhiy. This has been reported in 24260, so I'm closing this issue. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> TabError behavior doesn't match documentation type: -> behavior ___

[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Seems related issue24260 -- nosy: +xtreak ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you for your report Mikko. Yes, the heuristic used in Python 3 is unable to catch all inconsistencies in using tabs and spaces. Such bug was already reported early. There should be an open issue. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka __

[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: I believe that the interpreter only requires that each block is consistent, not that all blocks in a module are consistent. -- nosy: +steven.daprano ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

Eric V. Smith added the comment: I can verify this on 3.7.4. -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue38496] Python3 allows mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation

New submission from Mikko Rantalainen : Contrary to PEP-8 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces) claiming "Python 3 disallows mixing the use of tabs and spaces for indentation", in reality Python 3 allows mixing tabs and spaces without warnings or errors. For example (with