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This is awesome! I see this replacing my normal pastebin/ideone workflows ... One comment: in python, technically tabs are equivalent to 8 spaces, but in your

by veyron 15y ago

This is awesome! I see this replacing my normal pastebin/ideone workflows ... One comment: in python, technically tabs are equivalent to 8 spaces, but in your REPL it is equivalent to 4 spaces. Is that a modification to the version of python you are using, or did you make a decision to match 4 spaces (BTW: I really like this, but it breaks some older code)

marekmroz 15y ago
In python you can use tabs or spaces (however many) as long as it is consistent. Don't mix tabs and spaces. 4 spaces recommended. Style Guide: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ Indentation Myths: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk
- veyron 15y ago
  It's not really discussed in the PEP but in fact python treats the tab at the same indentation level as 8 spaces. You can mix tabs and 8 spaces without impunity Check http://ideone.com/VIwf4 http://ideone.com/VIwf4 for an example. Basically, it shows that python treats 8 spaces at the same indent level as a tab
  - max99x 15y ago
    I think ideone and/or your editor converts tabs to 8 spaces. Trying a tab indent followed by an 8-space one raises an error in native IPython for me. In any case, we're using normal CPython compiled to JavaScript, so it's unlikely to change finer points of the behaviour like this.
    - veyron 15y ago
      in CPython (at least, on my mac) mixing tabs and 8 spaces works perfectly fine. try it out!
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