Tim Roberts wrote:
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great - that worked.Thanks!
Is that a general method in linux you can always use to redirect
standard output to a file?
Works in Windows, too.
For some value of work :)
regards
Steve
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Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've spent a lot of time reading both sides of the tabs versus spaces
argument, and I haven't found anything yet that explains why tabs are, in
and of themselves, bad.
+1 for QOTW
Searching for the badness of tabs
is like searching for the holy grail.
On 1/1/07, Tom Plunket [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
in Python. So a tab equals some number of spaces really isn't useful
to me. My setup is, tab equals this much space.
A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but
On 2007-01-02, Peter Decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/1/07, Tom Plunket [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when
programming in Python. So a tab equals some number of
spaces really isn't useful to me. My setup is, tab equals
this much space.
Peter Decker wrote:
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
in Python. So a tab equals some number of spaces really isn't useful
to me. My setup is, tab equals this much space.
A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but after reading a
post by
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
I think there should be a single environment variable, perhaps
called TABS, which specifies the tab settings across all relevant tools
that work with text, including less and diff. So for example setting this
as
export TABS=4
will cause these tools to
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McNett
wrote:
Did you try to open your code files with another editor, which has a
different length for tabulator chars? It would look quite ugly, I
guess...
Actually, no. Everyone can choose their own number of spaces-per-tab and
it'll look right, as long as
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc 'BlackJack'
Rintsch wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McNett
wrote:
Everyone can choose their own number of spaces-per-tab and
it'll look right, as long as everyone uses a monospace font.
You never tried that with tabs plus additional spaces to line up
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
Did you try to open your code files with another editor, which has a
different length for tabulator chars? It would look quite ugly, I
guess...
Actually, no. Everyone can choose their own number of spaces-per-tab and
it'll look right, as long as
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Plunket wrote:
Perhaps interestingly, for development I have my editor set to show tabs
as fairly short, but my diff program shows them as eight characters. I
find that makes indentation changes easier to spot in the diffs.
I think there should be a single
Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But I think we all agree that mixing tabs and spaces is A Very Bad
Thing.
I like mixing tabs and spaces, actually. Tabs for indentation, and
additional spaces to make the code look pretty. Somebody please tell
me why this is bad
Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But I think we all agree that mixing tabs and spaces is A Very Bad
Thing.
I like mixing tabs and spaces, actually. Tabs for indentation, and
additional spaces to make the code look pretty. Somebody
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But I think we all agree that mixing tabs and spaces is A Very Bad Thing.
I like mixing tabs and spaces, actually. Tabs for indentation, and
additional spaces to make the code look pretty. Somebody please tell
me why this is bad and I'll stop.
class Apple(object):
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great - that worked.Thanks!
Is that a general method in linux you can always use to redirect
standard output to a file?
Works in Windows, too.
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Erik Johnson ej at somewhere.com typed
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation.
For some value of you.
The python style guide [1]
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:26:28 +0100, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
It is, and especially the problems with tabs shows you, why it is good
practice to follow the standard in your own code, too...
I don't know what problems with tabs you are talking about. I never have
problems with tabs.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:26:28 +0100, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
It is, and especially the problems with tabs shows you, why it is good
practice to follow the standard in your own code, too...
I don't know what problems with tabs you are talking about. I never
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:26:28 +0100, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
It is, and especially the problems with tabs shows you, why it is
good practice to follow the standard in your own code, too...
I don't know what problems with tabs you are talking
Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner schrieb:
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
I have a python script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use
tabs to indent sections of the code.
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation. The
python style guide [1] recommends four spaces per
Christophe Cavalaria schrieb:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You gave the reason in your post : because other people who are using
software that doesn't understand tabs as YOU expect them to have problems
with your code.
Tabs aren't a problem at all as long as nobody else than you edit your code.
Felix Benner wrote:
Christophe Cavalaria schrieb:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You gave the reason in your post : because other people who are using
software that doesn't understand tabs as YOU expect them to have problems
with your code.
Tabs aren't a problem at all as long as nobody else
Felix Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what's the point in typing four spaces for indentation instead of one
tab?
So long as you always use only tabs there is no problem. So long as you
only use spaces there is no problem. If you mix tabs and spaces you can
introduce bugs. In particular,
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Felix Benner wrote:
I like using tabs. And the style guide doesn't give a reason why one
shouldn't and neither does the thread
http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0198.html in the
archive.
So what's the point in typing four spaces for indentation
On 2006-12-28, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've spent a lot of time reading both sides of the tabs versus spaces
argument, and I haven't found anything yet that explains why tabs are, in
and of themselves, bad.
They aren't. Using tabs isn't bad. Using both tabs and spaces
is
On 2006-12-28, Felix Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like using tabs. And the style guide doesn't give a reason
why one shouldn't and neither does the thread
http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0198.html
in the archive. So what's the point in typing four spaces for
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Felix Benner wrote:
I like using tabs. And the style guide doesn't give a reason why one
shouldn't and neither does the thread
http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0198.html in the
archive.
This is a
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't know what problems with tabs you are talking about. I never have
problems with tabs. *Other people* who choose to use software that doesn't
understand tabs have problems.
I've spent a lot of time reading both sides of the tabs versus spaces
argument, and I
Hi,
I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use tabs to indent
sections of the code. I now want to run them on the same system,
actually in the same script by combining bits and pieces. But whatever
I try my windows
Hi,
I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use tabs to indent
sections of the code. I now want to run them on the same system,
actually in the same script by combining bits and pieces. But whatever
I try my windows
I've found the unexpand command, which seems to do the trick. However,
it outputs to standard output, and I haven't worked out yet how to
capture that output to a file...
Ben
Ben wrote:
Hi,
I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
script on a windows system
On 2006-12-27, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found the unexpand command, which seems to do the trick. However,
it outputs to standard output, and I haven't worked out yet how to
capture that output to a file...
unexpand file1 file2
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Great - that worked.Thanks!
Is that a general method in linux you can always use to redirect
standard output to a file?
Cheers,
Ben
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2006-12-27, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found the unexpand command, which seems to do the trick. However,
it outputs to
On 2006-12-27, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found the unexpand command, which seems to do the trick. However,
it outputs to standard output, and I haven't worked out yet how to
capture that output to a file...
unexpand file1 file2
Great - that worked.Thanks!
Is that a general method
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
I have a python script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use
tabs to indent sections of the code.
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation. The
python style guide [1] recommends four spaces per indentation level.
[1]
Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation.
For some value of you.
The python style guide [1] recommends four spaces per indentation
level.
[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
It's not quite absolute on the
Ben schreef:
I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use tabs to indent
sections of the code. I now want to run them on the same system,
actually in the same script by combining bits and pieces. But whatever
I try
At Wednesday 27/12/2006 20:09, Ben Finney wrote:
The python style guide [1] recommends four spaces per indentation
level.
[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
It's not quite absolute on the topic:
For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs.
Of course
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation.
For some value of you.
The python style guide [1] recommends four spaces per indentation
level.
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:15:33 +0100, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed
I have a python script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use
tabs to indent sections of the code.
Just a tip for you: In python you never use tabs for indentation. The
python style
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