Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> added the comment: I understand you're annoyed, but the bug tracker is not the place to rehash arguments that were settled a decade ago. If you need to pursue this, please take it to the newsgroup comp.lang.python. Before you do, you might want to scour the newsgroup's archives, as millions of words of debate on this topic have already taken place, mostly in the early to mid 90's. Nobody has anything new to say on this topic :-(
Note that nobody objects if you want to use tabs, or even mix tabs and spaces, in your own code. The Python "spaces only" standard is for distributed code. Years of early experience taught us beyond doubt that tabs caused endless problems for /shared/ code, to the extent that the Python distribution contains utilities to detect when mixing tabs and spaces can cause semantic differences (tabnanny.py) and to reformat source files to replace all tabs with spaces (reindent.py). Indeed, if you want to contribute to the Python distribution and insist on using tabs, that's fine: simply run your code through reindent.py before submitting your patch. Otherwise, just like this feature request, your patch will be rejected ;-) ---------- nosy: +tim_one _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7012> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
