Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.011 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'parser': 0.07; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'recommends': 0.09; 'spaces': 0.09; 'martin': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; 'posted': 0.15; 'finney': 0.16; 'highlight': 0.16; 'indent': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'demonstrate': 0.16; 'code.': 0.18; 'example': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; "haven't": 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'characters': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'too.': 0.31; 'though.': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'level.': 0.33; 'plain': 0.33; 'editor': 0.35; 'one,': 0.35; 'doing': 0.36; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'expect': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'space': 0.40; 'ensure': 0.60; 'remove': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'complete': 0.62; "you've": 0.63; 'show': 0.63; 'different': 0.65; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'received:125': 0.84; 'standing': 0.84; 'together,': 0.84; 'giants': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Newbie: unexpected indenting error Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:09:54 +1000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qk6zQtjp48UrzyV2bbK9mBn7JOU= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1405235407 news.xs4all.nl 2834 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43338 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74399 Martin S writes: > What the...? What am I doing wrong? > (hopefully the indents translate; else def, if/elif, for and [dostuff] > are indented) They're all indented by different amounts. I don't see anything that would cause the parser to tell you “unexpected indent”, though. For those reasons together, I suspect what you've posted here does not match exactly what is in your Python code. My recommendation: * Instruct your text editor to highlight any U+0009 characters (horizontal tab) as an error, and remove them. Indent with U+0020 SPACE characters only; PEP 8 recommends four spaces per indent level. * Ensure your emails are composed in plain text (AFAICT, you're already doing this), and show us *exactly* a complete example of code that will demonstrate the behaviour you're seeing. Make a new one, if you need to; just make sure it's complete so you can expect others to be able to run it too. -- \ “If I haven't seen as far as others, it is because giants were | `\ standing on my shoulders.” —Hal Abelson | _o__) | Ben Finney