On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 01:52, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: >> From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> >>> >>> The question to put up against this is: How often do you get >>> irritated by lines not being correctly indented ? >> >> Basically never. > > And of course I am the polar opposite: frequently enough that I want > to see this fixed.
I'm in the middle -- I don't mind so much if some parts of a file are indented using a different style than other parts. But I am adamant that local misalignment is horrible. Since mixing tabs and spaces within one function is bound to lead to local misalignments (either for the folks who set their tabs at 4 or for the folks who set them at 8, as God intended), I want at least within each function the indentation to be all spaces or all tabs. (And yes, the convention of implementing 4-position indents using tabs followed by 4 spaces for odd indents is evil, as it looks horrible for folks whose tabs are set to 4.) Long term (sorry Kristján :-) I prefer 4 spaces per indent level, but not enough to reindent everything. svn blame may have a way to ignore whitespace changes, but it's still a pain to deal with. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
