Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 14:24:30 EST 2005

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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

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