Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.062 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.88; '*S*': 0.00; 'tab': 0.07; 'wrote:': 0.15; 'indent': 0.16; 'selfish': 0.16; 'shalt': 0.16; 'three.': 0.16; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.16; 'received:74.125.82.174': 0.19; 'received:mail-wy0-f174.google.com': 0.19; 'cc:2**0': 0.21; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.28; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.30; 'sun,': 0.30; '17,': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'rest': 0.39; 'received:74.125.82': 0.39; 'received:74.125': 0.40; 'url:co': 0.63; 'world.': 0.64; 'eight': 0.73; 'subject:have': 0.74; 'spaces.': 0.84; 'subject:should': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=z0c2pn/TIzoyq8T3xs+NYxvyOo8fL1yseCvRPTYJvUU=; b=b9k7bYaTmh0NSp639/u/WETOaTeEVtsjy8BUNl7xsKZZ8Qr9VW7U6ZcWpKPFujv6hu KqkSOhlM0xJMOw8hIb0uf345UE0fzbuC4ttxq/8KUtmqv30cMy1dcV9Mz/TmNs0bm5RD Z6C7X3KsKxRNTPlvBWY8kMWbCET5sKtwFFQzE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4e225255$0$29990$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1e48a20c-1d87-4247-96fd-5565e3034bfe@en1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:38:55 +0300 Subject: Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won. From: Dotan Cohen To: Thorsten Kampe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1310931539 news.xs4all.nl 23951 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56805 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:9741 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 21:20, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> The past is bickering over selfish personal freedoms, the future of is >> unity. > > And a tab is *exactly* four spaces. Not three. Not five. Not eight. For > you, for me, and for the rest of the world. Amen! > Four is the number thou shalt indent, and the number of the indenting shall be four. Six thou shalt not indent, neither indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Eight is right out. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com