Timeline for Why doesn't Python just establish a format for declaring tab widths?
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| Oct 5, 2013 at 3:37 | comment | added | shuttle87 |
In vim I do the following when editing python in my .vimrc file: :set expandtab to make pressing the tab key create spaces and :set tabstop=4 to make each time I press the tab key make 4 spaces. For emacs: emacswiki.org/emacs/NoTabs. Other editors will let you do the same, you just need to find out how, but in any case if you are using any sort of a good IDE there's no reason that you need to be pressing the space 4 times in a row.
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| Oct 5, 2013 at 3:31 | history | edited | Indolering | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2013 at 22:00 | comment | added | DXM | So you are asking, if C, C++, Java, C#... etc developers have flame wars over tabs/spaces, why don't python make their developers do the same? I think you answered your own question. I personally like the absence of these fights and the ability to view code in any diff/code review tool or any editor and have it be consistent and aligned properly. | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 21:02 | answer | added | Martijn Pieters | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 21:02 | answer | added | riwalk | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 21:01 | comment | added | David Hammen | Set up your editor / IDE so it accepts your tabs as input but immediately converts them to the right number of spaces. | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 20:56 | comment | added | user7043 |
"pressing space 4 times is a PITA" -- every editor under the sun (except nano) allows you to press tab once instead.
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| Oct 4, 2013 at 20:31 | comment | added | daniel gratzer | Probably because Python Has Opinions. There is only one way to do it and frankly it's just simpler if everyone agrees on one formatting style. I'd be annoyed if I had to reconfigure my editor just to jump between files. | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 20:21 | history | asked | Indolering | CC BY-SA 3.0 |