Newbie, whitespace trouble

[William Park]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:21:27PM +0100, Syver Enstad wrote:
> Sometimes when I cut and paste code I get syntax errors because of
> whitespace, even if the code looks okay. The fix is usually to delete the
> whitespace and tab the code back again to where it was.
> 
> Any tips to avoid this from happening as it is a bit irritating?

This is editor problem, not Python's.  In vim, I do 'set paste' before
pasting, and 'set nopaste' after.  Also, make sure your <tab> is 8
spaces.

---William Park, Open Geometry Consulting