indetation problem

[Fuming Wang]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.996177883.10560.python-list at python.org>...
> Fuming> I am experiencing indentation problems when mixing tabs and
>     Fuming> spaces in my code. They appear in correct indentation in my
>     Fuming> editor, but cause error when running them. I am using Python
>     Fuming> 2.2a1. I reproduced the problem in following interactive
>     Fuming> sequence:
> 
> You probably shouldn't mix tabs and spaces in your code.  If you do, you
> will need to define a tab as 8 spaces, I believe.  That's what the Python
> lexer expects.
> 
>     Fuming> Question: is this something new, or it has always been there. It
>     Fuming> is strange that I have been using Python for several years, but
>     Fuming> only notice this behavior recently.
> 
> I think it's been that way for quite some time now, perhaps ten years or
> so. ;-)  Maybe you only recently changed to <tab> == <sp><sp>?

Yes, I recently changed Tab size from 8 to 4 on my editor. That explains it.

Thanks!

Fuming Wang