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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

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Date 2014-07-08 20:28 +1000
Subject Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.11620.1404815310.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> The unix tradition is to let the TTY interpret the TABs. Utilities such
> as "ed", "cat", "diff" or "gcc" don't interpret or process TABs in any
> way but simply output them together with the rest of the text.

Not quite; tools like diff that put a character at the beginning of
the line are likely to be tab-aware, and gcc is certainly going to
comprehend them (at least to the extent of treating them as
whitespace). And I think less takes notice of them, too, so it's only
the very simplest tools like cat that actually ignore them or treat
them as single characters (or even bytes).

ChrisA

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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-07 11:00 +1000
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-07 02:28 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-07 12:50 +1000
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-07-07 05:35 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-08 11:22 +1000
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-08 00:03 -0700
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-08 08:48 +0000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 19:05 +1000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 12:09 +0300
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 20:28 +1000
            Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 14:13 +0300
              Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 21:37 +1000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-09 12:41 +1000
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-09 01:19 -0700

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