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| From | Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces |
| Date | 2014-07-08 14:13 +0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <874mysgl2y.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (permalink) |
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
> Not quite; tools like diff that put a character at the beginning of
> the line are likely to be tab-aware,
No, just tried it again: diff outputs tabs as tabs.
$ diff abc def
1,2c1,2
< abc
< abc
---
> def
> def
where line 1 begins with a tab and line 2 begins with 8 spaces in each
file.
> and gcc is certainly going to comprehend them
$ gcc -c test.c
test.c:1:2: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ at end of input
where test.c contains
<TAB>(<LF>
IOW, gcc reports that the open parenthesis is in column 2.
> (at least to the extent of treating them as whitespace).
Sure, but that doesn't concern the tab stops in any way.
> And I think less takes notice of them, too,
How?
> so it's only the very simplest tools like cat that actually ignore
> them or treat them as single characters (or even bytes).
They all seem to be "simple." At least Python is:
$ python3 -c 'print ('
File "<string>", line 1
print (
^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
where the caret is pointing at the wrong visual column.
Marko
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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-07 11:00 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-07 02:28 +0000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-07 12:50 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-07-07 05:35 +0000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-08 11:22 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-08 00:03 -0700
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-08 08:48 +0000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 19:05 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 12:09 +0300
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 20:28 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 14:13 +0300
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 21:37 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-09 12:41 +1000
Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-09 01:19 -0700
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