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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/08/2014 19:14, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, looking at the Ninja-IDE website more closely I see that,
>> although they do mention compatibility with multiple languages, they
>> were designed by and for Python programmers - which makes the
>> tab/space issue less likely.  I dunno.
>
> Update: I tried out NinjaIDE myself, and confirmed that copying
> four-space indented code from Ninja, then pasting it into a plain-text
> compose box in GMail results in flat code/extra newlines; I can only
> presume that it's much the same with TBird.  The problem is definitely
> not (as I had thought) a space/tab problem; it has something to do
> with how Ninja (and GMail, and TBird) deals with the clipboard.
>

I'm not aware of any problem with Thunderbird or any (semi-)decent mail 
client.  Having said that I can't really comment on gmail but I do know 
that google groups screws up anything and everything that goes near it. 
  That's why https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython exists.

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Mark Lawrence