On 6/20/2012 7:51 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
But that is the current situation in IDLE? With no secondary prompt the
first indented line often starts to the left of the unindented line above.
No, because the tab indent is somehow bigger than PS1 in any font I have
tried. But perhaps you meant that an unindented subheader line starts to
the left.
>>> if a:
print('if')
else:
print('else')
Hmm, you've lost me there. What difference does Unicode make to the
display? Surely Unicode only affects how many bits are used to store the
characters not how they are displayed?
As I meant to say and Guido did, it affects whether monospace is
practical. That is why there are no monospace unicode fonts that I know
of. There is something else that was at the back of my mind. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms
There are asian ascii chars that are *defined* as half the width of
'standard' asian chars.
Sure, Python can work with non mono-spaced fonts - always has - but they
can mess up indentation so that off-by-one-space errors are hard to
spot. (Not so big an issue if you always use tabs for indents I
guess...but that's another debate! :-)
Idle is designed so you can indent with tab and dedent with (one) delete
even while converting tabs to the number of spaces you specify.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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