On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>: > >> Definitely. Indenting with tabs vs. spaces is mostly personal >> preference (though spaces are better!). But, mixing the two is right >> out, and should be stomped on hard. > > Often one person writes the code and another person fixes bugs in it or > adds features to it. So if one uses tabs and the other refrains from > using them, you'll get the mixed style you abhor. > > Even if we accepted that to be bad style, there's nothing on the screen > that would warn against such usage: the lines seemingly align perfectly, > and the code runs as expected.
That depends on your editor. SciTE, for instance, will give a warning any time indentation changes wrongly; if you mix tabs and spaces, there'll be error markers at the beginning of each change (so if there's one line with eight spaces amid a sea of tabs, that line and the one below it will be marked). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
