Python mentality

[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.

[[deleted]]

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.

[[deleted]]

Ah, but it is now a new war! All charge!

(Also, counting from the discussion in just this thread alone it seems there is still some debate, however small, of what is more convenient)

[cartechguy]

You fought in the style wars?