[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#691693: Tabs in Python sourcefiles

Ulrich Eckhardt doomster at knuut.de
Sun Oct 28 17:38:05 UTC 2012


Package: geany
Version: 1.22+dfsg-2

With the default configuration, Geany uses tabs to indent Python sources. 
According to Python's coding guidelines (PEP 8), sources should not use any 
tabs but exactly four spaces. As a workaround, you can manually switch to 
spaces under "Document > Indent Type > Spaces", which already uses the correct 
width.

Two notes:
1. I'm not sure if the Python template file is generated on the fly or loaded, 
but the template also uses tabs.
2. A similar issue might be Makefiles, which actually rely on being indented 
with tabs. I haven't tested those though.

Thank you!

Uli



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