Message 176552 - Python tracker

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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	dimitriprosser, mark.dickinson
Date	2012-11-28.16:39:45
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1354120786.11.0.976632918507.issue16571@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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This is expected behaviour for Python 2.x: Python interprets every TAB character as advancing to the next multiple-of-8 column, regardless of how your editor sees it. It would be too disruptive to change this behaviour in Python 2.x. It's already fixed in Python 3: there it's a syntax error to mix tabs and spaces in this way. Python 2.7 gives a warning if you run with the '-3' flag.

This is expected behaviour for Python 2.x:  Python interprets every TAB character as advancing to the next multiple-of-8 column, regardless of how your editor sees it.  It would be too disruptive to change this behaviour in Python 2.x.

It's already fixed in Python 3: there it's a syntax error to mix tabs and spaces in this way.  Python 2.7 gives a warning if you run with the '-3' flag.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-11-28 16:39:46	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, dimitriprosser
2012-11-28 16:39:46	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1354120786.11.0.976632918507.issue16571@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-11-28 16:39:46	mark.dickinson	link	issue16571 messages
2012-11-28 16:39:45	mark.dickinson	create