On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 10:04:25 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Ian Kelly : > > > You can use tabs *or* spaces. If you want to mix the two, then there > > would need to be some official decision made about how many spaces > > compose a tab, and then everybody who wants to use tabs would have to > > configure their editors to conform to that decision, or risk breaking > > their code. Some people like to indent two spaces. Some people like to > > indent four spaces. On the other hand, the de facto standard for > > terminal tab width is eight spaces. However, virtually nobody prefers > > eight spaces of indentation. So the question is which standard are you > > going to adopt, and which groups are you going to upset? > > Indentation preferences and the interpretation of TABs are two separate > things.
Required reading http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
