Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> John Salerno  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does what I originally pasted in my message look incorrect? To me, it 
>> all seems indented properly.
> 
> Yes. Somewhere or other you've got your tabstop set to 4, and python
> treats literal tabs as being of equivalent indent to 8 spaces. As
> does my newsreader, so the problem was obvious:
> 
> while True:
>         tries += 1
> ^ This was a tab (my cut&paste has turned it back into spaces)
>         try:
> ^ This was a tab too.
>         if guess == number:
> ^^^^^^^^ This was eight spaces even before I cut&pasted.
> 

Ah, that makes sense now! Thanks!
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