[TxMt] Re: SoftTabs (tabs as spaces) by default for Python

dipnlik dipnlik at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 12:18:32 UTC 2012


"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 at 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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