[pygtk] Funny Indent

[Steve McClure]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Nawal Husnoo wrote:

> Dear PyGTK users,
>
> I have never used PyGTK, and I only wanted to extract some gstreamer  
> webcam code from a script I found on:
>
> http://giss.tv/wiki/index.php/Streaming_Tools#GStreamer_2
>
>
> I have removed most of the codes I don't need, but I'm puzzled by  
> the indentation used:
>
> class GTK_Main:
>
>     def __init__(self):
>         window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
>         window.set_title("Webcam Streamer")
>         window.set_default_size(1024, 768)
>
>         window.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit, "WM destroy")
>                 self.sstate = 'preparing'    
> <<<<======================================
>
>                 red=gtk.gdk.color_parse('grey')
>                 eb=gtk.EventBox()
>                 eb.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, red)
>                 window.add(eb)
>
>         windows = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
>         windows.set_size_request(600, 400)
>         eb.add(windows)
>
>
> Could anyone tell me if this has something to do with PyGTK itself  
> or if it's something deeper in Python? If I remove the "extra"  
> indent, and run the code, it gives this error:
>
>   File "./Webcamstream-v4l2.pys", line 29
>     red=gtk.gdk.color_parse('grey')
>     ^
> IndentationError: unexpected indent
>
>
> If I remove the indent in all 5 indented lines, it complains in the  
> same way with the next one:
>
>   File "./Webcamstream-v4l2.pys", line 34
>     windows = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
>     ^
> IndentationError: unexpected indent
>
> Any ideas?

Your .pys file has mixed tabs and spaces.  If by "remove the indent in  
all 5 indented lines" you actually replaced the spaces with tabs, I  
think you would find the code worked as expected.  It looks like the  
tab spacing is expected to be 8 here.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Nawal.
>
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