Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:text': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; "subject:' ": 0.07; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'creighton': 0.09; 'interpreter,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:Getting': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'typed': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'interpreter': 0.15; 'subject: \n ': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'seeing.': 0.16; 'stuff,': 0.16; 'subject:Started': 0.16; 'with?': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; '"you': 0.18; 'first.': 0.18; 'laura': 0.18; 'subject:page': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'bit': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'earlier': 0.27; 'spaces': 0.29; 'code': 0.30; 'posts': 0.30; 'language.': 0.32; "he's": 0.33; 'windows.': 0.33; 'editor': 0.34; 'but': 0.36; '(and': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'subject:with': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'show': 0.62; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'our': 0.64; 'reply': 0.68; 'stated': 0.70; 'jul': 0.72; 'bst': 0.84; 'marines': 0.84; 'pasting': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:48:18 +0100 References: <1e75fe53-743b-4432-8b4e-6897b3d54956@googlegroups.com> <201507121947.t6CJlk64031222@fido.openend.se> <201507122029.t6CKTLgu032108@fido.openend.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-220-121.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <201507122029.t6CKTLgu032108@fido.openend.se> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1436734120 news.xs4all.nl 2965 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60758 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:93748 On 12/07/2015 21:29, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:09:22 +0100, Mark Lawrence writes: >> On 12/07/2015 20:47, Laura Creighton wrote: >>> Simon Evans -- what editor are you using to write your Python code with? >>> >>> Laura Creighton >>> >> >> Editor? His earlier posts clearly show he's using the 2.7.6 32 bit >> interactive interpreter on Windows. > > He's sending us that stuff, but he may be writing it someplace else > first. And that someplace else may be spitting out combined > spaces and tabs. If he is pasting that into the interpreter, > that will cause tons of problems like he is seeing. > > Laura > At 18:33 BST Simon stated "I typed in (and did not copy and paste) the code...". I started my reply with "You can tell that to the marines :)". -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence