On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:56 AM Alan Bawden <a...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > In my experience this is a very common way to assume that tabs will be > interpreted. Virtually every source-code file I have encountered since the > mid 1970s (for any programming language or operating system) has assumed > either this convention or, slightly less often, its 4-column variant. > > It's surprising that you've never encountered it.
I've seen the four-column variant, but never the two. Maybe I just move in different circles. In any case, I wouldn't say that "two space indents, collapsed to a tab after eight" is somehow a universal convention any more than four-space with or without collapsing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
