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Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting?

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Terry Reedy wrote:

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> IDLE is not the interpreter. 

Fine, I meant shell. Thanks for fixing that for me.

> The IDLE Shell is intended mainly for single-line inputs. 

Maybe it should be limited to that, then. That way stoopid noobs like
me don't use it wrong and then use the wrong nomenclature to complain
about it.

> For more than a three-line compound statement, I use the editor with
> a scratchpad file where editing is much easier. 

Great tip, thanks. That's how I'll do it from now on.

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Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-08-24 22:33 +0000
  Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-25 07:29 -0400
    Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-08-25 12:50 +0000
      Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-25 14:20 +0100
        Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-08-25 14:17 +0000
          Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-25 14:36 -0400
  Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-05 06:04 -0700
    Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-09-06 13:43 +0000
      Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 06:54 -0700
      Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-06 14:11 -0400
        Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-09-07 01:40 +0000
      Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Fabio Zadrozny <fabiofz@gmail.com> - 2012-10-17 12:10 -0300
        Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-10-17 15:34 +0000

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