Re: All leading tabs or all leading spaces - why isn't that enforced?

2007-08-07 Thread Omari Norman
I suppose we Pythonistas are just too permissive for our own good. Consider the opportunity to use mixed tabs and spaces a piece of rope of your preferred length ... I thought I remembered reading somewhere that Python 3000 will ban tabs as indentation characters, but now I can't turn up a

Re: All leading tabs or all leading spaces - why isn't that enforced?

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-08-07, Omari Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose we Pythonistas are just too permissive for our own good. Consider the opportunity to use mixed tabs and spaces a piece of rope of your preferred length ... I thought I remembered reading somewhere that Python 3000 will ban tabs

Re: All leading tabs or all leading spaces - why isn't that enforced?

2007-08-07 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:53:18 +, John Nagle wrote: One can argue over tab vs. space indentation, but mixing the two is just wrong. Why not have CPython report an error if a file has both leading tabs and leading spaces? I know that was proposed at some point, but I don't think it ever

RE: All leading tabs or all leading spaces - why isn't that enforced?

2007-08-06 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
John Nagle wrote: One can argue over tab vs. space indentation, but mixing the two is just wrong. Why not have CPython report an error if a file has both leading tabs and leading spaces? I know that was proposed at some point, but I don't think it ever went in. That would catch a common

Re: All leading tabs or all leading spaces - why isn't that enforced?

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Holden
John Nagle wrote: One can argue over tab vs. space indentation, but mixing the two is just wrong. Why not have CPython report an error if a file has both leading tabs and leading spaces? I know that was proposed at some point, but I don't think it ever went in. That would catch a common