On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Amir E. Aharoni<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 20:42, Robert Rohde<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Bryan Tong >>> Also for Python you really will want an editor that supports >>> indenting. Web browsers are not suitable for programming Python. >> >> Though indenting is mandatory for Python, the use or reasonable >> indenting is pretty much necessary to produce readable code in any >> language. >> >> That said, I don't see any reason we couldn't use two or three >> consecutive spaces to indicate indentations. > > Four!
Four is the default size of a tab in Python, but indents aren't actually required to be that size. If we are required to type consecutive spaces to format code, I'd actually prefer a smaller default size. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
