Newbie question: Tab key giving different output

[Fredrik Lundh]

getkaizer at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm a newbie to python. I run python under Manddrake Linux 10.2 from a
> terminal.
>
> While in the interactive mode, i need to use the tab key to indent my
> code. However, i get a message "List all 174 possibilities? (Y/N)"
> instead of an indent. So i use spaces.
>
> How do i tell python to give me indents?

see section A.3, Key Bindings, in the tutorial:

    http://docs.python.org/tut/node15.html

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