Ha, you found it all before I could fire it up. The whitespace thing is very odd, and it took about a month before I was comfortable using it for scope.
On the bright side, scope errors are a lot easier to find than you might think, once you get used to looking at py code. I thought, if your in the mood to pay for software, and on windows - wing IDE is used by many of my wrkmates. IT looks like garbage on linux (at least to my eyes) so I stick with eclipse, but Wing has a lot of fans. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list