[Python-Dev] Fixing incorrect indentations in C files (Decoder functions accept str in py3k) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 8 19:41:49 CET 2009

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 01:52, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com>

The question to put up against this is: How often do you get irritated by lines not being correctly indented ? Basically never. And of course I am the polar opposite: frequently enough that I want to see this fixed.

I'm in the middle -- I don't mind so much if some parts of a file are indented using a different style than other parts. But I am adamant that local misalignment is horrible. Since mixing tabs and spaces within one function is bound to lead to local misalignments (either for the folks who set their tabs at 4 or for the folks who set them at 8, as God intended), I want at least within each function the indentation to be all spaces or all tabs. (And yes, the convention of implementing 4-position indents using tabs followed by 4 spaces for odd indents is evil, as it looks horrible for folks whose tabs are set to 4.)

Long term (sorry Kristján :-) I prefer 4 spaces per indent level, but not enough to reindent everything. svn blame may have a way to ignore whitespace changes, but it's still a pain to deal with.

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