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Subject: Re: Tabs for indentation & Spaces for alignment in Python 3?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:34:02 -0500
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On 12/5/14 10:04 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 12/05/2014 07:31 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> This is a perfect example!  The code (with tabs as >--- and leading
>> spaces as .) is:
>>
>>    >-------if (!list_empty(pending))
>>    >------->-------ret = list_first_entry(pending, struct async_entry,
>>    >------->------->------->-------.......domain_list)->cookie;
>>
>> Now, display it in your editor with tabs set to four spaces:
>>
>>    >---if (!list_empty(pending))
>>    >--->---ret = list_first_entry(pending, struct async_entry,
>>    >--->--->--->---.......domain_list)->cookie;
>
> However, a conscientious programmer knows that tabs could be arbitrarily
> sized, so he would never do that.

The Linux kernel style guide makes clear: tabs are not arbitrarily 
sized. In the Linux kernel, they are eight spaces.

-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com