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Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?
Date 2015-07-12 21:48 +0100
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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

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Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-11 15:17 -0700
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 00:06 +0100
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 01:59 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-07-12 11:51 +0200
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 04:48 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-07-12 14:26 +0200
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 05:36 -0700
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 05:48 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-07-12 15:12 +0200
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-12 13:06 -0700
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 10:33 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-12 19:05 +0100
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 19:23 +0100
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? "Albert Visser" <albert.visser@gmail.com> - 2015-07-12 20:34 +0200
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-12 21:47 +0200
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 21:09 +0100
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-12 22:29 +0200
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 21:48 +0100
  Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2015-07-12 19:54 +0200
    Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 03:58 +1000

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