all versions of python fail to indent after conditional statement

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On 2021-04-02 01:40, mikedianeterry at gmail.com wrote:
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> 
>     The following snap shot of system prompt illustrates my problem. I have
>     tried 3.8, 3.92 and 3.10 with the same result. When I run in the window
>     interface it doesn't even display one row of ... but does print if I hit
>     return twice. I'm new to Python and was excited about learning it but am
>     becoming very frustrated over a bug in such a simple conditional statement
>     - please help as I would really like to master Python.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Michael Terry
> 
> 
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>     Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.867]
> 
>     (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
>     C:\WINDOWS\system32>py
> 
> 
> 
>     Python 3.8.8 (tags/v3.8.8:024d805, Feb 19 2021, 13:18:16) [MSC v.1928 64
>     bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
>     more information.
> 
> 
> 
>     >>> dog_has_fleas=True
> 
>     >>> if dog_has_fleas:
> 
>     ... print('too bad')
> 
>       File "<stdin>", line 2
> 
>         print('too bad')
> 
>         ^
> 
>     IndentationError: expected an indented block
> 
It said that it expected an indented block. You didn't indent the block.

Python uses indentation, but the Python prompt doesn't indent 
automatically, you have to do that yourself.