[Tutor] Interactive programming.

[WM.]

Norman Khine wrote:
>  >>> i = 5
>  >>> j = 7
>  >>> if i <= j:
> ...     print 'nudge', 'nudge'
> ... else:
> ...     print 'whatever'
> ...
> nudge nudge
>  >>>
> 
> 
> WM. wrote:
>>  >>> i = 5
>>  >>> j = 7
>>  >>> if i <= j:
>>     print 'nudge, nudge'
>>           else:
>>          File "<pyshell#8>", line 3
>>     else:
>>    ^
>> IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>
>> Running in IDLE, all is well until "else:". IDLE seems perplexed about 
>> the >>>s.  I try to de-dent else via the backspace key, after that 
>> there is no way to avoid an error message.
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> 
Yes, I understand how your program works.  What I do not understand is 
how you got it.  My program came out in IDLE as you see it.  No ..., 
different indentation, an error message before I could add the else 
alternative.  (Which, as a Pythonista, one should know, is "Wink-wink".)