Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: I hate you all Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <64d4fb7c-6a75-4b5f-b5c8-06a4b2b5d0cb@googlegroups.com> <906d8c05-99dc-4209-854c-7988ca7c78e3@googlegroups.com> <95b2bc1c-57a2-48c9-85ea-cf1004c9e26c@googlegroups.com> <515fb451$0$32114$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1365262634 23653 24.118.110.103 (6 Apr 2013 15:37:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:37:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:42924 On 2013-04-06, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 04/05/2013 10:36 PM, Timothy Madden wrote: >> >> 8-character tab stops should be the default. Debating that is I believe another topic, and compatibility with python2 >> should be enough to make that debate unnecessary. > > Python 3 broke a lot of things. Pull on your big-boy underwear and > deal with it. Python 3 requires that you wear _underwear_? That seems entirely arbitrary, and violates the god-given rights of telecommuters to write code wearing nothing but a bathrobe! Hell, for all I know, there may be people who go into the office without underwear. Though I think the lonely, unbathed, unshaven, robe-wearing telecommuter will be the poster-child for the worldwide campaign against the undwearist fascists trying to impose their sartorial dictates on Python users. Next, we need to pick a song... -- Grant