Newbie Problem
Aahz Maruch
aahz at netcom.com
Wed Jul 28 19:28:56 EDT 1999
In article <7nndss$q1n$1 at alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>, <rbl at hal.cwru.edu> wrote:
>
>Python 1.5.1 (#37, Apr 27 1998, 13:36:04) [CW PPC w/GUSI w/MSL]
>Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>> import sys
>>>> import random
>>>> import string
>>>>
>>>> def run(filename=''):
>... if filename=='':
> File "<stdin>", line 2
> if filename=='':
> ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Python uses indentation for control structures; "def" is a control
structure. Therefore, the "if" needs to be indented.
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