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Author rhettinger
Recipients Kamushin.Shen, cben, kbk, rhettinger, roger.serwy, terry.reedy, westley.martinez
Date 2014-04-01.01:04:04
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> IDLE defaults to indenting with 4 spaces in editor windows, 
> but hard TABs in the Python Shell window.  This is inconsistent 
> with PEP 8; what's worse, it's makes copy-paste code between 
> the shell and editor windows confusing and dangerous!

I also teach Python and find this to be a major PITA.

A Cntl-T turns tabs off but leaves the tab spacing at eight.
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2014-04-01 01:04:04rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, terry.reedy, kbk, cben, roger.serwy, westley.martinez, Kamushin.Shen
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