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Re: [SPAM: 3.500] Re: [pygame] This one baffles me



i guess i'll use spaces for my next program. But why exactly are spaces better? the article just said that was the standard

--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Lorenz Quack <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Lorenz Quack <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SPAM: 3.500] Re: [pygame] This one baffles me
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:01 PM

You should use 4 spaces and no tabs. The only exception is when you are modifying old files that already are using tabs. new files should use 4 spaces per indentation level.
You can read up on this kind of stuff in the python style guide:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

yours

//Lorenz


Yanom Mobis wrote:
> umm... well i got my editor to display spaces and tabs differently (tabs with an arrow) so i can see where i've accidentally used spaces.
>
> thanks anyway
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/18/09, Nicholas Dudfield /<ndudfield@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Nicholas Dudfield <ndudfield@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: Re: [SPAM: 3.500] Re: [pygame] This one baffles me
>     To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
>     Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:12 AM
>
>     jug wrote:
>      > I think you forgot the newline:
>      >   .replace("\n"+" "*4, "\n\t")
>      >
>     No cigar... not even close...
>
>     from __future__ import with_statement
>
>     with open ('perforce_plugin.py', 'r+w') as fh:
>        fixed_tabs = fh.read().expandtabs(4)
>        fh.seek(0)
>        fh.write(fixed_tabs)
>
>     *expandtabs*(s, tabsize=8)
>        expandtabs
>        <http://pydoc.org/1.6/string..html#-expandtabs>(s [,tabsize]) ->
>     string
>            Return a copy of the string s with all tab characters replaced
>        by the appropriate number of spaces, depending on the current
>        column, and the tabsize (default 8).
>
>
>