On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 20:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That's not the sense of being discussed here.
Yes it is - this started as a discussion of whether indentation and alignment should be based on fixed spaces (as text editors support) or dynamic tab stops (as any word processing format supports). > How absurd. Why should a > letter containing nothing but text be classified as "not text" because it > was written in Microsoft World or LibreOffice rather than vi or emacs? Because it's not _a text file_. It's not obligated to be devoid of formatting markup or other metadata, or to have a perfectly flat structure, or to be edited in programs whose design has not been updated since the early 1970s, which are _exactly_ the complaints leveled against python source code at the start of this discussion.. ______ : Python :: MS Word : Plain Text -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
