[Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

[Marc Tompkins]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm not aware of any problem with Thunderbird or any (semi-)decent mail
> client.

The original poster uses NinjaIDE and Thunderbird, and his code was
being persistently flattened when he copied/pasted.  I believe I've
just tracked it down to an incompatibility between the two (which also
happens to extend to Ninja/Gmail.)  I'm not sure how Google Groups
enters into it.