indetation problem

[Skip Montanaro]

    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>?

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