Cai Gengyang wrote:
Somehow it still doesnt work --- it keeps giving the syntaxerror, inconsistent use of tabs and indentation message EVEN though i use only the enter and space buttons and never touched the tab button a single time.
There was another thread about this a short time ago. It turns out that when you press enter in the IDLE REPL, it auto-indents the next line -- but it does it using *tabs*, not spaces. So if you do your manual indentation with spaces, or paste something in that uses spaces, you can easily end up with invalid tab/space mixtures. The solution is to always use the tab key for indentation when working interactively in IDLE. I think this should be reported as a bug in IDLE, because it's very unintuitive behaviour, and a beginner has little chance of figuring out what's going on by themselves. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
