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Pythonwin: Red squiggley underline and syntax error

Colin J. Williams cjw at sympatico.ca
Mon Feb 28 16:55:28 EST 2005 
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.
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