On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:20:07 -0700
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> what do you do if the indentation is lost? you e.g. copy and paste or
> email piece of code etc. and it changes spaces into tabs or vice versa
> or removes newlines or somebody accidentally joins two lines together or
> otherwise changes formatting... what do you do then? how would you know
> whether baz was supposed to be part of if or not?
Indention isn't magically lost and you're speaking of copies. The problem
in all those cases lays in the transport or in the person who doesn't know
what he is doing, not the code. 2+ years of working with Python and your
scenerio has come up exactly 0 times in my experience.
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