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A comment on Ask HN: Why PEP8 favors using spaces over tabs for code indentation?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why PEP8 favors using spaces over tabs for code i... by codegeek on Friday August 10, 2012 @01:04PM (#4367079)
Not sure if I followed what you said. What I mean is that isnt hitting the spacebar 4 times more difficult and annoying than hitting the tab key once ? Yes you can configure tab key for any number of spaces but still the point being about hitting spacebar multiple times.
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Re:Ask HN: Why PEP8 favors using spaces over tabs for code i... by kudakeru on Friday August 10, 2012 @02:43PM (#4367566)
Modern editors generally don't require you to hit space four times. There's a "convert tabs to spaces" option so you can hit the tab key, and most of them do auto-indenting anyway.
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