Re: I hate you all

Date	2013-04-05 23:58 -0600
From	Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: I hate you all
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On 04/05/2013 11:36 PM, Timothy Madden wrote:
> I guess a discussion like this thread is the price to be paid for 
> relying solely on white space to delimit code blocks, like the python 
> syntax does.

I've always been taught that in Python using tabs, particularly in the
way that you use them (which, by the way, is the default way vim uses
them when in C++ mode) is fraught with difficulty.  So years ago I
dropped in c couple of lines in my vimrc file to use spaces instead of
tabs and use the PEP standard of 4 spaces.  Have never had any problem.

As for your problems, perhaps instead of coming on the list with a
poorly-thought-out subject line, and desire to simply argue, perhaps you
could run your code through a reformatter that would translate your tabs
into spaces using the tab stop that you desired.  Open the file in vim,
enter the following commands:

set sw=4
set ts=8
set et
set softtabstop=4
set ai
:retab

Then save the file.  Now it's pep-formatted with spaces and no tabs.
Problem solved.  Yes it doesn't address your concerns, but it is the
recommended solution for Python given the difficulties in mixing tabs
and spaces and different people's definition of tabs.

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I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 14:41 -0700
  Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:53 +1100
  Re: I hate you all John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-04-05 21:55 +0000
    Re: I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 15:04 -0700
      Re: I hate you all Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 17:28 -0500
      Re: I hate you all Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 16:42 -0600
        Re: I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 17:22 -0700
          Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:35 +1100
            Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:07 +0300
              Re: I hate you all Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-04-05 22:28 -0700
              Re: I hate you all Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 23:53 -0600
                Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 09:56 +0300
                Re: I hate you all Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:17 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 17:22 +0300
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-06 15:30 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-04-08 00:52 +0200
              Re: I hate you all Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 23:59 -0600
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-06 06:19 +0000
              Re: I hate you all Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 23:49 -0600
          Re: I hate you all Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 19:50 -0500
          Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-06 02:07 +0000
          Re: I hate you all Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 21:53 -0600
            Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:36 +0300
              Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 16:44 +1100
              Re: I hate you all Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 23:58 -0600
                Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 10:07 +0300
              Re: I hate you all Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-04-05 23:00 -0700
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-06 15:37 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-06 11:49 -0400
              Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-06 06:55 +0000
              Re: I hate you all Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-06 13:17 -0700
                Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-07 14:37 +0300
            Re: I hate you all Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-04-06 14:52 +0100
              Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-07 01:20 +1100
                Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 17:37 +0300
                Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-06 11:01 -0400
                Re: I hate you all Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-06 15:15 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-06 15:41 +0000
                Re: I hate you all rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 09:00 -0700
                Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-06 11:59 -0400
                Re: I hate you all Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-06 18:48 +0000
                Re: I hate you all rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:31 -0700
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-07 07:29 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-07 01:38 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-07 01:30 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-06 22:15 -0400
                Re: I hate you all Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 20:42 -0600
                Re: I hate you all Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-04-08 19:43 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-08 19:48 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-04-08 21:25 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-08 21:29 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-09 08:00 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-04-08 22:51 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-09 08:57 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-09 09:33 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-09 13:39 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-04-09 09:17 -0500
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 00:20 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-09 16:51 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-04-09 21:09 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-09 23:09 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-09 23:21 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 09:28 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-04-09 23:50 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 10:31 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-10 02:00 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 12:14 +1000
                Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-10 00:39 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-10 00:41 +0100
                Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-09 21:43 +0000
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-09 02:51 +0000
                Re: I hate you all rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 21:06 -0700
                Re: I hate you all rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 21:52 -0700
                Re: I hate you all Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-09 05:19 +0000
          Re: I hate you all "Günther Dietrich" <gd.usenet@spamfence.net> - 2013-04-06 14:55 +0200
        Re: I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 17:22 -0700
      Re: I hate you all Isaac To <isaac.to@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 06:35 +0800
      Re: I hate you all Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 17:00 -0600
  Re: I hate you all Dylan Evans <dylan@dje.me> - 2013-04-06 14:28 +1000
    Re: I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 22:13 -0700
      Re: I hate you all Dylan Evans <dylan@dje.me> - 2013-04-07 13:00 +1000
        Re: I hate you all Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> - 2013-04-07 14:44 +0300
          Re: I hate you all Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-04-07 11:12 -0700
            Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-07 14:33 -0400
    Re: I hate you all terminatorul@gmail.com - 2013-04-05 22:13 -0700
  Re: I hate you all Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-06 15:27 +0000
    Re: I hate you all Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-06 11:58 -0400
  Re: I hate you all Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-07 19:25 +0100

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