On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: > people use all spaces. Not everyone uses 8 space tab stops either. How > does python deal with these issues? What about line continuation wrt > observing an 80 character width maximum?
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0008.html has the definitive statement on the way it should be, 4-spaces to a tab mark all indents with spaces rather than tabs. but allows that not everybody does do it that way. > > Nicely formatted code is a good thing. > > What I like about perl and *sh as compared to python is that they are more > like C (which is where scripting languages and OSes come form), and other > Unix concepts, which come in especially handy in the realm of system > administration. > Python has a long history with unix, (it was used as a systems scripting language on the Amoeba project which was Dr. Tanenbaum's project _after_ Minix) it also has the wonderful os module that allows you to find path and stat() information and create and remove directories using mostly identical code on windows,macs and posixly correct OS's > This thread has convinced me to take a closer look at python, however. > What's the situation with python on Win* ? > The last time I sat down in front of a strange windows box, it already had python running on it and the person who's computer it was did not remember having installed it, this was on WinME; there's also a whole book devoted to COM programming with python so if you must deal with the beast, at least you'll be able to do so with a decent programming language. > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
