Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

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Date	Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:12 +1000
Subject	Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Summing up: if you care about other human beings, use spaces. If you
>> don't care about other human beings, you may use tabs, but other human
>> beings surely will take how you treat them into account ;-).
>
> Ha ha, that's funny, I would have said the opposite: if you care about
> keeping tools that expect spaces happy, use spaces, if you care about
> allowing people to configure the look of your code, or poor unfortunates
> who aren't using a programmer's editor, use tabs.

Right. And hey. If you're a sufficiently competent programmer, you CAN
get away with not caring about other human beings: either because
you're so utterly valuable that people accept you despite your rough
edges... or because you just script away the differences :)

Now, if your *boss* doesn't understand about these things, it's
possible to lose your job over stupid stuff like style guides.
Although to be fair, I'd been planning to quit for a long time, and
the style guide was the last in a long line of problems, so when I
kicked back and said basically "No, your style guide is a bad idea",
it ended up with us parting ways. But that's a separate point.

ChrisA

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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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