On 07/12/2015 05:48 AM, Simon Evans wrote:
Dear Peter Otten,
Yes, I have been copying and pasting, as it saves typing. I do get 'indented
block' error responses as a small price
> to pay for the time and energy thus saved.
>
You CANNOT ignore indenting.
Indenting is NOT optional, it is REQUIRED by Python syntax.
Changing indenting TOTALLY changes the meaning.
> Also Console seems to reject for 'indented block' reasons better known to
itself, copy and
> pasted lines that it accepts and are exactly the same on the following line
of input.
>
As above, that is Python syntax.
> Maybe it is an inbuilt feature of Python's to discourage copy and pasting.
>
Absolutely not. As noted above, this is the way Python is defined to work.
-=- Larry -=-
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