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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016, at 10:22, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> You *can* assume other people have read the spec. Even more importantly,
> you can assume the Python interpreter complies with the spec.

I can assume the python interpreter will accept tabs as indents too,
that doesn't make it good style.

Requiring people to constantly flip between my code and the language
reference to understand it is also not good style.