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Farrah Dickerson
10,173 PointsWhy are we using Tabs within Workspaces? http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
:: From PEP 8 :: Tabs or Spaces? Spaces are the preferred indentation method.
Tabs should be used SOLELY to remain consistent with code that is ALREADY indented with tabs.
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
:: Stack Overflow :: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119562/tabs-versus-spaces-in-python-programming
:: Me :: It's a contentious issue, no doubt, but shouldn't beginners be learning the (literal) STANDARD?
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Erika Suzuki
20,299 PointsThe workspace seems to be using spaces for tabs, last time I checked.
Set your editor to use spaces instead of a tab when you press the Tab key. Sublime Text 3, my favorite editor of choice does this, and it has a built in Python runner. I strongly recommend that editor. Also, to make sure you're not using tabs, set your editor to show invisible characters like indents (\t) and spaces (\s). If you're currently using tabs, you could convert them by find and replace using a regex pattern. find all "\t" and replace it all with " \s\s\s\s".
Seth Reece
32,867 PointsIf you set tabs to be in spaces with four spaces in workspaces, or your own text editor, hitting the tab key will make four spaces instead of a tab. Just a lot easier to hit the tab key instead the spacebar four times.