[Tutor] Syntax Errors

[Jason Massey]

Danny!

Thanks!  It's the tab vs spaces, alright.

I use tabs for my spacing and I was touching a part of the code that a
co-worker wrote.  Guess what he uses?  Spaces.

Thanks for that insight and I'll be sure to read up on the command line
options.



On 1/3/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Jason Massey wrote:
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> > I've just finished ripping out a bunch of lines in one of my wxPython
> > programs.  Testing it out I get:
> >
> > C:\Python24>tla2.py
> >   File "C:\Python24\tla2.py", line 412
> >     self.grid.SetCellValue(0,0,"Site")
> >     ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
> > There's nothing wrong with that line.  I didn't even touch it in the
> > overhaul (refactoring is much too delicate of a word for the surgery I
> > just did).  I can make the error go away by unindenting the line, but
> > all that happens then is the error gets passed onto the next line down.
>
> Hi Jason,
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> Can you show us the line in context?  That is, can you show us a few lines
> above and below?
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> Also, let's make sure we're not running into a silly tab-vs-spaces issue.
> Can you try running Python with the '-tt' command line option?  This will
> enable Python to strictly treat mixed tabs and spaces as a bad thing.
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>
> Good luck!
>
>
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