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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