On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On every editor, make sure that you DO NOT use spaces instead >> of Tabs and that you are not converting spaces to Tabs on >> opening. That will screw you up so bad and it's a major >> source of frustration for beginners. > > This is too strongly put. Spaces are in fact more poular than tabs > among Pyhon programmers: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/. I > don't know why and don't want to argue about it. I think that the > most > important lesson for new users is to _be_ _consistent_. If you > will be > working mainly with Dabo, that probably means using tabs. Note that > PythonWin will default to the indentation method already present in > any > file you open. This came up at our user group meeting last night. Out of a dozen people, only two used spaces. They were both 'older' (i.e., 35+). Out of all the college students, every single one used tabs. Not to start the debate again, which is well played out, but the biggest argument against tabs has been that some editors don't handle the ASCII 9 code as a legitmate character. Of course, every editor created after 1975 handles ASCII 9 just fine, so maybe that's why it's only the older guys who prefer spaces. ;-) -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
