Re: Running beginner Pythons

On 11/7/2015 7:53 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:

>> 4. Visible leading spaces (or even all spaces).  There is a unicode
>> small middle dot char that is suitable for this.
>
> This is a purely display item and definitely could be an IDLE
> (or any other IDE) feature. It would even be useful for
> posting code to mailing lists since HTML mail tools
> constantly lose spaces in posts. This could help ensure
> clear indentation in posts.
>
> I'd certainly vote for this as a switchable feature in Idle.
>
> PS. How would tab indents be handled? One mark or two?

There was an issue requesting 'visible tabs' and I believe I closed it 
because it is too messy an issue.  It cannot work consistently with 
proportional type because there may not be enough space for a character.

> expand tabs to 'spaces'?

That is what IDLE does now be default at beginning of lines.
After chars, it TAB opens completions box.

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Terry Jan Reedy