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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [XEND] Remove hard tabs

To: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [XEND] Remove hard tabs
From: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:36:37 -0700
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MB> That's stupid, tabs are a relief to use when coding compared to
MB> spaces.

To quote from the Python style guide[1]:

  "The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only.  The
  second-most popular way is with tabs only."

  "spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs."

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
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