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RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails

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Ramit Prasad wrote:
> 
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >
> > 	Unless there has been a major change in the parser... (I still don't
> > have Python 3.x installed)
> >
> > 	I believe <tab> is expanded to 8-spaces -- NOT TO NEXT MULTIPLE OF
> > 8...
> 
> A tab is *one* character. Your *editor* may show tabs visually
> "expanded" or convert them to spaces. This is entirely editor dependent.
> My current (python) editor, does expands tabs to the next *multiple* of 4.
> It helps keep code aligned, and I have no need for 4 hard spaced tabs
> without regards to alignment (yet). I have had editors that did 4 hard
> spaced tabs, so it might be a developer/application preference.
> 
> >>> with open(r'c:\ramit\mix_tab_space.txt')as f:
> ...     d = f.read()
> ...
> >>> print repr(d)
> '\tblah\n    test\n\t'
> >>> print d[0] + 'goo'
> 	goo
> >>> print repr(d[0] + 'goo')
> '\tgoo'

Apologies, I missed that it was talking about the parser
and not editor/file. Please disregard my previous post. 


~Ramit


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re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 15:43 -0800
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-11-20 01:21 +0000
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:24 +0000
    Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:29 +0000
      Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 11:09 -0800
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:37 -0700
          Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 08:41 -0800
            Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 16:00 +1100
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-11-28 14:08 -0600
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 21:39 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-28 19:20 -0500
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-29 09:34 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-29 13:38 -0500
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:57 +0000
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:53 +0000
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 20:50 +0000
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:39 -0700

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