[Zope-Checkins] reindent.py (Was: CVS: Zope/ZServer - FCGIServer.py:1.19)

[Martijn Pieters]

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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