You just have to consider that indentation matters in Python, so you have to type the code in Python interpreter as you have written it below, that is, press Tab before each line when you are inside the 'while (or any other like for, if, with, etc.) block.
a=0 while a<10: a=a+1 print a I can guess from your message that you aren't aware of one very important Python feature, and maybe you also didn't willingly choose to learn Python2 instead of Python3 ? In this case I would advise you to consider both versions before choosing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list