[Python-Dev] Reindenting the C code base? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Dec 13 23:11:47 CET 2008

Guido van Rossum <guido python.org> writes:

I think we should not do this. We should use 4 space indents for new files, but existing files should not be reindented.

Well, right now many files are indented with a mix of spaces and tabs, depending on who did the edit and how their editor was configured at the time.

Perhaps a graceful policy would be to mandate that all new edits be made with spaces without touching other functions in the file. Then hopefully the code base would gradually converge to a tabless scheme.

Regards

Antoine.

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