Re: [SPAM] It's ...

Someone has gently directed me to the Tutor mailing list: which I hadn't known about. I've joined, and will try to confine my initial blundering experiments to there. Sorry about the spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam! -- Angus Rodger

Re: [SPAM] It's ...

Angus Rodgers wrote: [snip] This sort of thing seems to work, in the interpreter (for an ASCII text file, named 'h071.txt', in the current directory): stop = 3 # Tab stops every 3 characters from types import StringType # Is this awkwardness necessary? detab = lambda s : StringType.expandta