IndentationError: expected an indented block but it's there

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 11:32:06 -0400, JackM wrote:

> Having a problem getting a py script to execute. Got this error:
> 
> File "/scripts/blockIPv4.py", line 19
>      ip = line.split(';')[0]
>       ^
> IndentationError: expected an indented block
> 
> 
> I'm perplexed because the code that the error refers to *is* indented:

Whenever you get perplexing indentation errors, suspect an inconsistency 
due to mixed tabs and spaces.

Tabs good. Spaces good. Tabs and spaces together, bad.

You can run the tabnanny module over your source code:

python -m tabnanny  <file-or-directory>


to convert indentation to all spaces.


-- 
Steven