On 09/09/14 13:27, Mirage Web Studio wrote:
would like to understand why hitting the poor keyboard 4/8/12 times is preferred than just hitting it 1/2/3 times.
Its not, as others have already said, you set the tab key to insert spaces. Of course you usually have to delete those spaces manually - but hopefully that's a relatively rare event - and there are usually short cuts to delete to start of line.! But spaces are preferred because they are a fixed size whereas different editors/browsers display tabs differently. And a common size is 8 space equivalent - which looks bad if there are 3 or 4 levels of indentation, and usually requires more line wrapping. OTOH 4 spaces is 4 spaces regardless of the viewer used. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
