Copy-paste into Python interactive interpreter and indentation

Question

This piece of code, file test.py,

if 1:
   print \"foo\"
print \"bar\"

can be successfully executed with execfile(\"test.py\

Answer 1

If you are like me and use Notepad++ (to copy and paste from), try to replace tabs by spaces by going to menu Settings → Preferences → Language and check the replace by spaces.

I had this problem myself for so long and I found out that python.exe recognizes spaces.