Re: GOP-PROP 1: python formatting

[Martin Tarenskeen]

> > that unlike C++ or scheme, indentation in python is the way that
> > one indicates code blocks.  (this makes mixing tabs and spaces
> > particularly horrible!)

Recently I tried to convert some python 2.7 code that I wrote for a little 
personal project to python 3.2 using the 2to3 tool.

Then I discovered that my code was suffering from mixed tabs/spaces and 
inconsistent indentation. With Python 2.7 it worked fine but Python 3.2 
was a little more critical and produced a lot of errors.

Another good reason to have consistent indentation rules for our Python 
code. One day in the future Lilypond tools written in Python might have to 
be converted to Python 3. (But please, don't hurry - it can wait) This 
task will be easier if we have good and clean Python 2.x to start from.

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MT