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I remember reading this several years ago. It's not something that is 100% implemented by configuring emacs or vi properly: read the entire article slowly. I'm

I remember reading this several years ago. It's not something that is 100% implemented by configuring emacs or vi properly: read the entire article slowly. I'm surprised I haven't heard any Python coders piping up. We pick spaces or tabs, and stick with it; otherwise, our code doesn't run. Mixing tabs and spaces is pure evil. I prefer spaces, because a space is a space and will display as exactly one space in any text editor.

arthurk 18y ago
Even if you use tabs, the Python compiler will convert a tab to 8 spaces internally.
njharman 18y ago
> I'm surprised I haven't heard any Python coders piping up. Because either indentation is a non-issue for you or you don't use Python. Any decent editor solves this problem to the 98-99% mark. There's lots more interesting things to do than dick around with that 1-2% Python forces you to keep your indentation correct and sane so it's never so whacked you need special tools to deal with it. Proper indenting is subconscious like other languages ';' at end of line or parens around expressions in if/for. That is when it isn't automatically handled by your editor...
DougBTX 18y ago
Well, any editor with fixed width fonts, which the author of the article would like to move away from.