Scoping Issues
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri May 25 11:16:48 EDT 2012
Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 5/24/2012 8:59 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
>> so I fixed that, and got
>> inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
>>
>> because you mistakenly used tabs for indentation.
> Not to start another tabs-vs.-spaces discussion, but tabs are perfectly
> legal indentation in Python. That exception is raised when the
> interpreter can't determine how much a line is indented because tabs and
> spaces are both used.
To be clear: each entire suite must be consistent with its use of either
tabs /or/ spaces -- attempting to use both, even on seperate lines,
raises `TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation`.
(Python 3, of course. ;)
~Ethan~
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