Were you working closely with me I would be unhappy about the non-standard tab-stop.

I leave editors at the default 8 spaces. Your code would probably not display nicely for me in 80 columns and I would request that you change your settings to make sure your tabs become spaces in the file. I don't care what happens on your screen when you hit tab. I do care that the output is readable for me, prints properly, etc. And since others use editors with 8-space tab-stops, I am not going to be sympathetic to changing to match what you are doing...

Oh, and the first time you open and touch some Python code? You will turn it into a complete and utter mess! Seriously, Python uses indenting for its logical structure, and non-standard tabstops can result in your not being able to read it, and then it's not being able to read it either after you make a trivial edit and spaces are converted to tabs (or vica versa)!

In reply to RE (tilly) 2: On Testing and Formatting Code by tilly
in thread On Testing and Formatting Code by jcwren

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