Blogger, spaces, &nbsp; and <pre>

OK, So I've been posting bits of code of late, and Blogger buggers up the spacing. It removed leading spaces and trims multiple spaces to single spaces. This is probably good for the average blog post, but really, really bad for indent dependent Python.

I finally got around to Googling the problem. I'll repeat it here, just in case this helps someone else.

This is how I was doing it until today:

<code>
def double(x):
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return x*2
</code>

But now I know about <pre></pre> and I can write this instead:

<pre>
def double(x):
    return x*2
</pre><
To show this:

def double(x):
    return x*2

Much better !