"Because PEP-8* tells us to use spaces :)"
* http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/119576/347411
It looks like spaces are standard since 2001, so the change in Python's bundle is a bugfix.
(disclaimer: I'm not a python programmer but I was curious about the question and this was the google result I found)
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Neil kngspook@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wary of asking this, because of it's flamewar potential, but why did TextMate decide to switch from tabs to spaces by default for Python?
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