myles broomes wrote:
This question isnt so much related to a specific program, just something im
curious about. What is the best way to email code? I find that when i copy
and paste it into an email, the indentation and spacing gets all messed up.

Don't send HTML, because that is poison to correct formatting of Python code. Mail clients feel free to reformat indentation and spacing in arbitrary ways with HTML emails. Find the setting in your mail client to turn off all formatting. My guess is that you are using Outlook or Outlook Express -- look for the setting about "Rich Text", and turn that off.

If you can't turn it off, at least turn on the option to send both HTML (rich text) and plain text. The HTML version will probably be mangled, but the plain text version should be okay.

If you are using Thunderbird, turning off format=flowed can sometimes help.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29

For large amounts of code, don't copy and paste into your email. Nearly every email program in the world allows you to attach attachments. Just attach the .py file and send that.




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Steven

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