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Python

Posted by Richard McKee
Richard McKee
2,670 Points

Can some one explain indent errors and how to stop having them all the time in Python?

I feel like every time I write python it's always the same indent error. Does any one have best practices to not getting any errors?

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

It is simple.

If you have a block (a line ending with a colon), indent by four spaces.

name = input("What your name? ")
if name == "Alex":
    print("Nice to meet you, Alex!")

And if you have blocks in blocks, just indent that an extra 4 spaces.

def hello():
    name = input("What's your name? ")
    if name == "Alex":
        print("Nice to meet you!")

And, at the end of any block, you de-dent the line

name = input("What your name? ")
if name == "Alex":
    print("Nice to meet you, Alex!")
print("Cool!")

I hope you understand now! ~alex