Whatever your place defines as a standard. I’ve seen ugly code in C, JavaScript, Java, etc., that uses them all over the place because they’re not mandatory.

If you don’t have consistent indenting, your code looks like copy/paste from several sources; but if you do have consistent indenting, then the indenting of Python is a non-issue.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Per the Linux kernel coding style:

Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I’m rather partial to five myself but only when I’m feeling fancy.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No one will ever know. That is my editor's job. XD

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

White space sensitive languages are evil.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner