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From: Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 00:51:32 -0700
To: Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com>
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> On Jul 4, 2014, at 11:29, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On 04/07/14 07:55, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>=20
>>>> That's exactly the problem with tabs - whatever you think your code
>>>> looks like with tabs, other people will see quite different picture.
>>>=20
>>> Why do you consider this a problem?
>>=20
>> It's a problem if you try to use tabs for lining things
>> up in a tabular fashion in your source code.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> PEP8 suggests using this style of method invocation:
>=20
>    obj.method(foo,
>               bar,
>               baz)
>=20
> which is an effect impossible to do correctly with tabs alone. If you want=
 to follow this style strictly, you end up having to either mix tabs and spa=
ces, or just use spaces, or as I prefer it, avoid the issue altogether:
>=20
>    obj.method(
>        foo,
>        bar,
>        baz,
>    )

Ok, here's irony. I'm looking at that thinking "what the heck is he talking a=
bout?!?". And then my brain catches up. My mail reader is of course "modern"=
 and does not use a mono space font. So the value of the along ed indent is l=
ost anyway. But wasn't that what spaces were supposed to give us over tabs, s=
ome separation from the trading betwixt different editors? Chuckle.

Travis Griggs