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Re: Please verify!!

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Please verify!!
Date	2012-02-25 00:49 +0000
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On 24/02/2012 20:41, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>  wrote:
>> Personally, I prefer tabs for theoretical reasons and spaces for
>> practical ones. I think that the world would be better off if we all
>> standardised on tabs instead of spaces, but since that's not going to
>> happen, I can interoperate better with the mass of broken tools out
>> there, and with other people, by using spaces.
>>
>
> At work, since we have a fairly small core of developers, we
> standardized on tabs - mainly because of a couple of devs who
> disagreed on how much indentation looked right (I'm of the opinion
> that 1 space is insufficient), and having tab characters in the file
> allows us to configure our editors differently. I'm definitely in
> favour of using tabs where possible, but if you can't close your
> environment, spaces are far safer.
>
> ChrisA

Oo, thou sinner, fancy violating PEP 8 and standardising on tabs.

OTOH if that's your standard and you stick to it fine.

What I can't stand is the "I've always done it this way an I ain't movin 
jus cos sum standard says so" attitude.

Yes I have seen this in real life and the person responsible should be 
sacked.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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  Re: Please verify!! Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-23 17:43 -0500
  Re: Please verify!! Joshua Miller <milleja46@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 20:57 -0500
  Re: Please verify!! Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 21:45 -0600
    Re: Please verify!! Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-02-24 19:32 +1100
      Re: Please verify!! Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 03:18 -0600
        Re: Please verify!! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-24 12:20 +0000
          Re: Please verify!! Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 07:20 -0600
          Re: Please verify!! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-25 07:41 +1100
          Re: Please verify!! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-25 00:49 +0000
          Re: Please verify!! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-25 12:25 +1100
          Re: Please verify!! Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-24 21:36 -0500
    Re: Please verify!! Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-24 11:21 +0000
      Re: Please verify!! Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 05:36 -0600
  Re: Please verify!! Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 01:26 -0600
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