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Old 08-11-2013
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Originally Posted by alister
In case it's of any interest to you: PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

Regards,
Alister
^ Hold the press folks....


We've a ruling....

As per above link....
Quote:
Tabs or Spaces?

Spaces are the preferred indentation method.

Tabs should be used solely to remain consistent with code that is already indented with tabs.

Python 3 disallows mixing the use of tabs and spaces for indentation.

Python 2 code indented with a mixture of tabs and spaces should be converted to using spaces exclusively.

When invoking the Python 2 command line interpreter with the -t option, it issues warnings about code that illegally mixes tabs and spaces. When using -tt these warnings become errors. These options are highly recommended!

Well that settles that, thanks Alister! 4-space it is for me then. When in Rome...

Is there any macro or whatnot in vi that auto-spaces-4?
Last edited by sas; 08-11-2013 at 10:05 AM..
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