Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>>That's exactly the problem with tabs - whatever you think your code
>>looks like with tabs, other people will see quite different picture.
> 
> Why do you consider this a problem?

It's a problem if you try to use tabs for lining things
up in a tabular fashion in your source code.

The solution is not to use tabs for that -- only use
tabs for indentation, and use spaces for everything
else. Or, as PEP 8 suggests, don't try to line things
up in the first place.

I know it's ironic that tabs are no good for tabulation.
But it's unavoidable in a plain text format that doesn't
carry any metadata about how to interpret the tabs.

-- 
Greg

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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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