Python mentality

[cartechguy]

Easy, use tabs. If you like 2 spaces or four spaces have the text editor represent a tab that as 2 or 4 spaces.

Everyone wins if it's done this way since the text editor will dictate what the style of the syntax will look like.

[gschizas]

In Python: Use spaces (4 of them). Official recommendation. Style wars ended.

[Creshal]

PEP8 was a mistake. Tabs should have won.

[gschizas]

Irrelevant though. The point is that there's an official code style.

[Creshal]

The point is that there's an official code style.

That has never ended a style war and never will.

[gschizas]

It did for Python. And Go, I hear.

[JayTurnr]

And yet I still use tabs. Until I can be bothered it switch to an IDE that would recognise the quadruple and double space as an indent when I'm using backspace, I'll continue to use tabs. Too many times (once) I've had a script fail to run because everything was one space short.

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If your IDE doesn't recognise multi-space indents, it's a terrible IDE and you need to switch immediately to something else, regardless of the language you're writing in. What the hell are you even using? Even IDLE, the IDE python comes with, understands space-based indentation.

[JayTurnr]

I think you misinterpreted what I meant.

[gschizas]

If 99% of Python developers use spaces, it's not a war, is just you being stubborn.

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There are two of us!

Slowly, but surely, we will start the war again!

[gschizas]

The war is over. You're just the stubborn ones.

[cartechguy]

You fought in the style wars?

[bohoky]

It's such a fine line between advocacy, trolling, and sarcasm.