[Pmw-general] Fwd: new pmw git repository now up on github.com

[Daniel F <nan...@gm...>]

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From: Daniel F <nan...@gm...>
Date: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Pmw-general] new pmw git repository now up on github.com
To: David McNab <da...@re...>


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, David McNab<da...@re...> wrote:

> Ohh, the tortures I could dream up for those who use tabs in Python
> code.
>
> Why the presence of tabs outside of strings hasn't been deprecated
> completely escapes me. Tab should be a syntax error! Why can't people
> just learn to use 4 spaces?

Heh well, the consistent use of either tabs or spaces is "ok" in my
book, though I prefer the 4 space indent myself. It's when code mixes
tabs and spaces in seemingly random way, and thus looks all out of
wack in an editor, that's when I start having real issue with it. (as
in the case of Pmw's code).

But, fwiw, I have changed the indentation to be consistently 4 spaces
per tab in my pmw git repository.

At least in the lib and bin subdirectories. I haven't yet looked at
tests, though from my running of them, they seem like they need to be
updated for the modern python versions, since they expect slightly
different exception text.