Tabs are designed for tabulation (hence the name), not indentation. The side effect is that a tab’s length changes based on its position in a line, which is terrible for programming. If you use tabs in the Python REPL, it looks like this:
>>>deffrobnicate_all(arr):>>>for item in arr:>>> frobnicate(item)
Tabs are designed for tabulation (hence the name), not indentation. The side effect is that a tab’s length changes based on its position in a line, which is terrible for programming. If you use tabs in the Python REPL, it looks like this:
>>> def frobnicate_all(arr): >>> for item in arr: >>> frobnicate(item)What does this even mean? A tab is a tab.
Tab’s don’t have multiple lengths inside a file, they all have the same length.
That’s the point of tabs.