re.search when used within an if/else fails

[Prasad, Ramit]

Ramit Prasad wrote:
> 
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >
> > 	Unless there has been a major change in the parser... (I still don't
> > have Python 3.x installed)
> >
> > 	I believe <tab> is expanded to 8-spaces -- NOT TO NEXT MULTIPLE OF
> > 8...
> 
> A tab is *one* character. Your *editor* may show tabs visually
> "expanded" or convert them to spaces. This is entirely editor dependent.
> My current (python) editor, does expands tabs to the next *multiple* of 4.
> It helps keep code aligned, and I have no need for 4 hard spaced tabs
> without regards to alignment (yet). I have had editors that did 4 hard
> spaced tabs, so it might be a developer/application preference.
> 
> >>> with open(r'c:\ramit\mix_tab_space.txt')as f:
> ...     d = f.read()
> ...
> >>> print repr(d)
> '\tblah\n    test\n\t'
> >>> print d[0] + 'goo'
> 	goo
> >>> print repr(d[0] + 'goo')
> '\tgoo'

Apologies, I missed that it was talking about the parser
and not editor/file. Please disregard my previous post. 


~Ramit


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