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Re:Ask HN: When you code, do you use tabs or spaces? by ElongatedTowel on Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:17AM (#6935063)
Tabs work fine in Python if you don't mix them with spaces. Or is there a problem with tabs I've never encountered?
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Re:Ask HN: When you code, do you use tabs or spaces? by dded on Thursday December 19, 2013 @04:53PM (#6938180)
True. But my point, really, was that in most circumstances even tabs mixed with spaces isn't so very bad. I mentioned Make and Python as examples of exceptions.

BTW, do you really use tabs in Python code? I've not ever encountered that.

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Re:Ask HN: When you code, do you use tabs or spaces? by ElongatedTowel on Thursday December 19, 2013 @06:44PM (#6938839)
I use tabs wherever possible, yes. Though that might change in the future. I'm not sure why spaces are so common in the Python world.
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