What to do with “Unexpected indent” in python 3? "while True:

[Casper2017]

Hi

When writing a simple program to a complex program and you know it works fine, when a "while True: is placed in the program so it will repeat
all one gets is Unexpected Indent, this totally ruins the program.

I could give several program examples, the trouble is python 3 seems to be showing this message all the time.

It take hours of playing around with the line code to have it up and working.

Is there any way of stopping this "unexpected incident " message from occurring.


Thanks

[scotty101]

This problem is usually caused because of different indentation styles.

Some people (who are wrong*) use tabs.
Some people (who are correct*) use spaces

Python 3 disallows the use of both tabs and spaces.
The solution is to go through your code and replace all tabs with spaces. A good text editor like Geany will help you to do this as it can automatically replace tabs with spaces and can be configured to enter a specified number of spaces rather than a tab when you press the tab key.

* See PEP-8 for recommended python indentation style.

[paddyg]

In my experience this has 99.9% been due to mixed tabs and spaces, either with multiple people working on a project or me copying some useful code from somewhere else. To start with I was fairly tabspace agnostic but I now always use spaces and set the editor (geany) to show whitespace and formatting guides. It is one of the most annoying things about python (but also a USP)

[gordon77]

Hi

When writing a simple program to a complex program and you know it works fine, when a "while True: is placed in the program so it will repeat
all one gets is Unexpected Indent, this totally ruins the program.

I could give several program examples, the trouble is python 3 seems to be showing this message all the time.

It take hours of playing around with the line code to have it up and working.

Is there any way of stopping this "unexpected incident " message from occurring.


Thanks

Just be consistent with the number of indent spaces you use.

[klintkrossa]

I have had this problem when using a file edited in window. if you are using window to edit try edit it through Geany or python IDLE.

[DirkS]

I have had this problem when using a file edited in window. if you are using window to edit try edit it through Geany or python IDLE.

There's nothing Windows specific about it.
It depends on your editor settings. Any halfway decent editor (Windows or other) will let you set how you want to deal with the tab key and leading indents

[bensimmo]

I have had this problem when using a file edited in window. if you are using window to edit try edit it through Geany or python IDLE.

There's nothing Windows specific about it.
It depends on your editor settings. Any halfway decent editor (Windows or other) will let you set how you want to deal with the tab key and leading indents

He could be meaning a the Terminal/command line front eh GUI and something like nano
He might not be though.

It is a pain, but I've found the editors options sort it out tend to work but with a bit of editting to realign if it out of place.

[Casper2017]

Thank you.

That helps, several problems solved.