Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:29:52PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Also, as an off-topic note, blank lines that contain tabs or spaces
> > are Pure Evil(tm), especially in code. One of these days I should
> > write a sed script to eliminate all incarnations of this Pure Evil(tm)
> > from /usr/src.
>
> Python did away with that requirement for scope in 2.x. If you want to
> use blank lines for code logic separation in python < 2.0, you must nest
> the line as far as the current block. For that reason, I don't use
> blank lines within class or method definitions when writing for Python
> 1.5.x.
[snip]
Hmm, I did not know this before.
*chalks up one more reason to avoid Python like the plague...*
T
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