Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.xcski.com!ncf.ca!not-for-mail From: "Colin J. Williams" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: indentation blocking in Python Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:37:26 -0400 Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 23 Sender: fn681@206-47-116-80.dsl.ncf.ca Message-ID: <526D3336.4090508@ncf.ca> References: <96fc985d-725e-4fe7-8d30-0bcaad91f975@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-47-116-80.dsl.ncf.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: theodyn.ncf.ca 1382888260 26312 206.47.116.80 (27 Oct 2013 15:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Oct 2013 15:37:40 GMT To: ajetrumpet@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 In-Reply-To: <96fc985d-725e-4fe7-8d30-0bcaad91f975@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57747 On 27/10/2013 11:31 AM, ajetrumpet@gmail.com wrote: > a=1; > if a==1: print(1) > else: print(0) > wait = input("press key") You indent only subordinate statements. You don't need a semi-colon unless it separates two statements on the same line. Your code: a=1 if a==1: print(1) else: print(0) wait = input("press key") I hope that this helps. Colin W.