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RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails

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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> 	Unless there has been a major change in the parser... (I still don't
> have Python 3.x installed)
> 
> 	I believe <tab> is expanded to 8-spaces -- NOT TO NEXT MULTIPLE OF
> 8...

A tab is *one* character. Your *editor* may show tabs visually 
"expanded" or convert them to spaces. This is entirely editor dependent. 
My current (python) editor, does expands tabs to the next *multiple* of 4. 
It helps keep code aligned, and I have no need for 4 hard spaced tabs 
without regards to alignment (yet). I have had editors that did 4 hard 
spaced tabs, so it might be a developer/application preference.

>>> with open(r'c:\ramit\mix_tab_space.txt')as f:
...     d = f.read()
...
>>> print repr(d)
'\tblah\n    test\n\t'
>>> print d[0] + 'goo'
	goo
>>> print repr(d[0] + 'goo')
'\tgoo'

> 
> 	So the first is 8+4 => 12 spaces, the second is 2+8+4 => 14 spaces.
> 
> 	Does 2 + <tab> + 2 vs 4 + <tab> vs <tab> + 4 succeed? That would
> confirm the treatment.
> 
> 	The main concern with mixed tab and spaces, as I recall, was due to
> having /editors/ and /terminals/ configured to show <tab> as a four
> space (or anything other than an eight space) increment; so visually
> four spaces and one <tab> might look the same... One user might have the
> editor showing 4-space indents on <tab> but entering text using 4 spaces
> on input -- which now is mis-aligned if the source file HAD <tab> in it.


~Ramit



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re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 15:43 -0800
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-11-20 01:21 +0000
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:24 +0000
    Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:29 +0000
      Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 11:09 -0800
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:37 -0700
          Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 08:41 -0800
            Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 16:00 +1100
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-11-28 14:08 -0600
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 21:39 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-28 19:20 -0500
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-29 09:34 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-29 13:38 -0500
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:57 +0000
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:53 +0000
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 20:50 +0000
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:39 -0700

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