Re: Pythonwin: Red squiggley underline and syntax error
Steven Bethard: > You've probably mixed tabs with spaces in your indentation somewhere. > Either replace all tabs with spaces or replace all spaces with tabs. You can see what characters are being used with the View | Whitespace command which shows tabs as arrows and spaces as centred dots. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Pythonwin: Red squiggley underline and syntax error
Steven Bethard wrote: Brent W. Hughes wrote: I copied and pasted some text into my Python code and then Pythowin put a red squiggley underline under the two tabs at the beginning of the line. What does that mean? I've tried various things including deleting the white space in front of the line and reinserting the tabs. I've also tried retyping the entire line. Sometimes, I can get the red line to go away but when I try to run the program, it gives me a syntax error on the line that had the red underline. Help! You've probably mixed tabs with spaces in your indentation somewhere. Either replace all tabs with spaces or replace all spaces with tabs. STeVe The former is generally recommended. Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Pythonwin: Red squiggley underline and syntax error
Brent W. Hughes wrote: I copied and pasted some text into my Python code and then Pythowin put a red squiggley underline under the two tabs at the beginning of the line. What does that mean? I've tried various things including deleting the white space in front of the line and reinserting the tabs. I've also tried retyping the entire line. Sometimes, I can get the red line to go away but when I try to run the program, it gives me a syntax error on the line that had the red underline. Help! You've probably mixed tabs with spaces in your indentation somewhere. Either replace all tabs with spaces or replace all spaces with tabs. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Pythonwin: Red squiggley underline and syntax error
I copied and pasted some text into my Python code and then Pythowin put a red squiggley underline under the two tabs at the beginning of the line. What does that mean? I've tried various things including deleting the white space in front of the line and reinserting the tabs. I've also tried retyping the entire line. Sometimes, I can get the red line to go away but when I try to run the program, it gives me a syntax error on the line that had the red underline. Help! Brent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
