[Python-Dev] Reindenting unicodedata.c (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
11 Nov 2002 13:31:22 +0100

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

>>Why does MAL prefer 4 spaces?

I'm not really sure why, but one apparent reason is that Python uses the same indent.

It doesn't. Python uses tabs for indentation in its C source code, see PEP 7.

Just like Fredrik, I prefer 4 spaces indents over TABs and since the RE and Unicode code base used these 4 spaces indents all along, I'd also prefer to keep it that way.

I don't, since it makes editing these files more difficult for me, so I will just change the file, and be done with it. Over time, I expect that the unicodeobject.c will see a similar change - but not until a major change is done to that file simultaneously.

I consider sre to be different in this respect, as the "master source" is not the Python CVS, so making an exception seems appropriate.

Regards, Martin