Update the CODING_STYLE to reflect our tabs/spaces change.
Risk: None
Visibility: None
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@google.com>
git-svn-id: http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk@1720 592f7852-d20e-0410-864c-8624ca9c26a4
diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
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--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -15,13 +15,8 @@
Format your code for an 80 character wide screen.
-Indentation is hard tabs, equivalent to 8 spaces. Yes, I know that's pretty
-large, but especially in Python where code flow is controlled by indentation
-levels, it's critical for it to be clearly visibile.
-
-People will claim that doesn't allow them enough levels of indentation on an
-80 character screen - they need to fix their code instead: use smaller
-functions, and more local variables - it makes the code so much easier to read.
+Indentation is now 4 spaces, as opposed to hard tabs (which it used to be).
+This is the Python standard.
Don't leave trailing whitespace, or put whitespace on blank lines.
Leave TWO blank lines between functions - this is Python, there are no clear