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[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Apr 29 00:44:17 CEST 2014 
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:01:32 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 4/28/2014 2:12 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
> > I don't think anyone should write code with variable width fonts,
> 
> The problem is that fixed pitch does not work well for even a half-way 
> complete unicode font and I don't know that there are any available. As 
> far as I know, my Windows 7 only came with one unicode font that Idle 
> finds. An advantage from my viewpoint is that spaces in this font are 
> narrower that the average character, making multiple-of-4 indents and 
> spaces around operators look pretty good to me.

My unix fix-width terminal font handles most unicode (even a lot of
non-bmp stuff...though I have no idea if it is readable :).

I have no idea what font it is, to tell you the truth.

--David
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