On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> Personally, I like to use tab characters for indentation. You can >> choose how many pixels or ems or ens or spaces the actual visual shift >> is, and if I disagree with your choice, it won't affect anything. As >> long as tabs are used _exclusively_, Python won't be bothered by it >> either. > > Your preferred, novel usage of TABs, which runs counter to the age-old > programming convention, has won enough supporters to make TABs unusable. > > No harm done. TABs have been banished. They were a bad idea in the first > place.
I don't understand. How does that usage run counter to the old conventions? A tab character, a press of the tab key, was a signal to move to the next logical column - regardless of the exact width of a column. It's also completely compatible with the stricter rule "a tab is equivalent to eight spaces". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
