Hi there,
The python scripts of deadline use a “tab as tab” approach, not the usual python standard of “4-spaces as tab”. I know this might be a bit of a major change, but any chance of changing that to a python standard?
The reason being that we have a couple of patches we usually apply to the mayabatch & nuke plugins, and every new release we have to go line by line due to the non standard tabulation.
cheers,
laszlo
Burn the heretic! Actually… it is standard but it’s a bad standard imo. So burn The Monarchy!
I think you need a better reason than that object… I would probably be lobbying for this change as well (and I fully support it), but I’m already pretty deep into writing a set of new plugins that hook into our rendering pipeline.
Hey guys,
We agree that we should adhere to the standards, so we’ll make this change in beta 13.
Thanks!
It’s easier to go from tabs to spaces than spaces to tabs. Also I hate it when I have 3 spaces instead of 4, it looks like it’s indented but it’s not. Also tab is the “indentation” symbol. Also C++ and C# are tab’ed I believe. Less keystrokes.
Sounds like you need a better editor/IDE… Any good one will be able to interpret a Tab keypress as “promote/demote by N spaces.”
Tabs are terrible because there is no standardization. Any program can interpret a tab in whatever way it wants, and may not even convert them to spaces. I’ve seen different programs convert them to 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 just on my workstation.
I see that now this is 4 spaces in the full release of 6? But why is it spaces rather than tabs?
I’ve not had this issue in any other software so it took me a while to realise that was the problem with the scripts I had made!
We decided to go with spaces because it is the most “popular” standard:
python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
Cheers,
Oh, I’m quite surprised (it’s not as though Im a programmer here 
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Anyway good to know thanks! I think upgrading my scripts into 6 is going smoothly…