wierd error after if or while

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8f90uq$u4v$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <nick_knight at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>I am a newbie - in fact I just downloaded it today, and so far it looks
>like a very useful language. The only problem is I seem to be doing
>something stupid. If I run the folloing bit of code
>
>x = 4
>
>if x==4:
>print "hello"
>
>I get the following error message
>
>  File "<stdin>", line 2
>    print "hello",
>        ^

First of all, next time please include the entire error message.  In
this case, I know you received a syntax error, but that might not be so
obvious next time.

The problem is that Python uses whitespace to indicate that statements
belong in a block.  Your "if" starts a new block, so the "print" needs
to be indented, like this:

if x==4:
    print "hello"
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