[clue-tech] Son's PC and intro to programming

[David L. Anselmi]

Matt Gushee wrote:
> Greg Knaddison wrote:
[...]
>> If you are working in a team of folks and share code and have to
>> support each other's work, the Python indenting makes it far easier to
>> do that job.
> 
> Agreed. And if I'm not mistaken, tab characters are no longer allowed 
> for indenting Python, so the only point of disagreement is how many 
> spaces to use.

This continues to puzzle me.  I think tab characters are the obvious way 
to indent code.  One level, one tab.  Two levels, two tabs.  How much 
screen space that is is a presentation issue and modern editors handle 
your preference fine (even for different programmers on the same file).

So if Python insists on spaces I have to reformat if you write something 
at 4 spaces and I like it at 2.  What does it do if I write one way and 
you add to my file another way?

I don't want to start a religious debate, but ignoring presentation (and 
mixed tabs+spaces, that's stupid) why don't tabs make more sense in Python?

Thanks!
Dave
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