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Wed Aug 16 14:19:55 CEST 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068298.html

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> Can I suggest making 'python -t' the default, in 2.6? It makes python 
> warn about mixing tabs and spaces in indentation.

+1.

> In Py3k, '-tt' (the 
> error-raising version) will be the default, instead.

Or disallow tabs altogether.

> I see too many 
> newsbies with problems they can't figure out because they mix tabs and 
> spaces (usually not even consciously, but just because their editor 
> isn't playing along.) There probably should be an option to turn the 
> warning off again (although I won't fight for it ;) -- but I don't know 
> what that option should be.

Perhaps -T.

Georg

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