Emacs has eaten my python tabs!!!

[Mongryong]

Doesn't python rely on tabs?

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 10:12, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     Mongryong> Ok, I did some cut and paste from python source which had
>     Mongryong> different tabs.  In emacs it appears the tabs are in the
>     Mongryong> right place but Python is complaining about indentation
>     Mongryong> errors.  I've tried changing the tab-width/tab-stop in emacs
>     Mongryong> but still no luck.
> 
> If everything lines up (that is, visually the code appears properly indented
> within Emacs), simply select the entire buffer and execute M-x untabify.
> You'll wind up with source code which only uses spaces for indentation.
> Keep it that way.  You'll have far fewer problems of this sort.  ;-)
> 
> Skip