Following syntax error in Mac OX10.7 Terminal

Andrew Berg bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 13:31:47 EDT 2012


On 6/28/2012 12:11 PM, David Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the following error regarding a loop tutorial found on http://www.sthurlow.com/python/lesson04/
> 
>>>> a=0
>>>> while a<10:
> ... a=a+1
>   File "<stdin>", line 2
>     a=a+1
>     ^
> IndentationError: expected an indented block

You indented in the IDE, but not in the interpreter. Indent with a space
or a tab. In Python, indentation is syntactically important. Everything
indented will be part of that while loop; the next line that isn't
indented will be considered not part of the loop.
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