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[Python-Dev] Two spaces or one?

[Python-Dev] Two spaces or one? [Python-Dev] Two spaces or one?Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Jul 24 05:23:22 CEST 2007
Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> In PEP 9 there's a requirement that PEPs must follow the "emacs 
> convention" of 2 spaces after a period. (I didn't know this was an emacs 
> convention, I thought it was a convention of people who used typewriters.)

If the PEP is displayed as HTML, then one or two spaces after a period
in plain text might not matter; any browser that I've bothered to check
visually merges space characters unless they are intermixed/replaced
with non-breaking space (&nbsp;). If ReStructured Text converts to
non-breaking space, then they matter.

In terms of text text editing, I think that as long as one is consistant
within a document, that's good enough.


 - Josiah

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