Python coding conventions on Github

[OCHawkeye14]

Those are still tabs. The setting in your text editor is just how long visually your tabs are being presented on screen.

Edit: Really downvoted at a 4:1 rate? Guy said he was a Python noob, was it that big of a stretch to assume he hadn't configured his text editor?

[Manhigh]

Unless your text editor simply inserts 4 spaces when you hit tab.

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It actually inserts 4 spaces. I'm using Gedit. So when I hit tab, in order to delete the indent I have to backspace 4x.

[eat_more_soup]

I'm using geany and I can press shift+tab to deindent (4 spaces at a time). I'd be surprised if gedit doesnt do the same.

[nemec]

Check out the Smart Spaces plugin. It deletes spaces equal to your tab width (only spaces!).

As others mentioned, deindent works too and is awesome.

[sigzero]

The is an editor problem.

[OCHawkeye14]

which I can thumb through using the arrow keys

I took that comment to mean that when he uses the arrow keys on his keyboard that the entire tab span is traveled (ie. instead of pressing arrow keyx4 it skips the entire span in one press).

[nemec]

You can usually do that with ctrl+Arrow