[Zope-Checkins] reindent.py (Was: CVS: Zope/ZServer - FCGIServer.py:1.19)
Martijn Pieters
mj@zope.com
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:08:22 -0400
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:00:20PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> It's scary to make this many changes at once. In the Python codebase, we
> started doing this one directory at a time (and that's primarily why, e.g.,
> reindent requires an -r switch to *force* directory recursion). It created
> some problems! They were all in the nature of string literals depending in
> gross or subtle ways on containing literal hard tab characters, or even on
> containing trailing whitespace. I can't guess how prevalent that is in the
> Zope codebase, although common sense dictates that anyone known to rely on
> such tricks would have been shot years ago <wink>.
Okay, thanks for the warnings. I'll look at this at a directory by directory
basis.
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Martijn Pieters
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