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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

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Le jeudi 3 juillet 2014 20:07:28 UTC+2, Paul Sokolovsky a écrit :
> Hello,
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> 
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> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 03:38:27 +1000
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> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Tobiah <tshepard@rcsreg.com> wrote:
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> > > Coworker takes PEP8 as gospel and uses 4 spaces
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> > > to indent.  I prefer tabs.  Boss want's us to
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> > > unify.
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> > 
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> > 1) PEP 8 is meant to be guidelines, *not* a set of hard-and-fast
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> > rules. 
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> > 2) Tabs let different people display the indents at different
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> > widths. 
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> That's exactly the problem with tabs - whatever you think your code
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> looks like with tabs, other people will see quite different picture.
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> Also, most people are not interested in doing mumbo-jumbo with tabs
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> settings, and have them set to standard 8-char tabs. So, any python
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> code which uses only tabs for indentation automatically violates
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> 4-space convention (and mixing tabs and spaces is nowadays prohibited
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> in Python).
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> 
> 
> Summing up: if you care about other human beings, use spaces. If you
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> don't care about other human beings, you may use tabs, but other human
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> beings surely will take how you treat them into account ;-).
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> 
> -- 
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> Best regards,
> 
>  Paul                          mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com


"Tabulation", the key, the code point, the tab stop have been
created for humans beeings.

Today, at Unicode time, there are only naive ascii people,
who think a code point/space can be replaced by a set of
characters.

jmf

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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 21:07 +0300
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 12:22 -0700
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-04 01:21 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-04 11:30 +1000
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-03 21:37 -0400
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-07-04 18:55 +1200
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2014-07-04 19:29 +0100
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-04 15:04 -0400
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-07-04 20:50 +0100
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-07-05 11:17 +1200
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-07-04 18:35 -0500
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-07-05 00:51 -0700

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