Audacity and pipe_test.py

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 12:39:52 EDT 2020


On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 2:33 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:22:29 -0400, "Steve" <Gronicus at SGA.Ninja> declaimed
> the following:
>
> >Your line worked except that I used copy/paste to place it in the program.
> >I kept on getting something like "improper indentation or tab" and pointing
> >to the end of that line.  I guess hidden characters were imbedded and when I
> >deleted all spaces before and after the paste, then placed them in again,
> >those hiddens went away.
> >
>         Most likely your source had a series of spaces, my post had a leading
> <tab>.
>
>         In Python, a <tab> is counted as EIGHT spaces, even if an editor only
> moved in by four spaces.

Only in legacy versions of Python. In current versions, a tab is
counted as a tab.

ChrisA


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