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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:07:16 +0100

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

"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.

I was talking about Python source code, not C source code. I know that Guido perfers C indentation using TABs and that's why PEP 7 suggests using this scheme. I think that source files use consistent indentation on a per file basis, but no point in fighting over 4 spaces vs. tabs in them.

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