On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:10 am, ICT Ezy wrote: > Pl explain with an example the following phase > "Indentation cannot be split over multiple physical lines using > backslashes; the whitespace up to the first backslash determines the > indentation" (in 2.1.8. Indentation of Tutorial.) I want to teach my > student that point using some examples. Pl help me any body?
Good indentation: def function(): # four spaces per indent print("hello") print("goodbye") Bad indentation: def function(): # four spaces per indent print("hello") # four spaces \ print("goodbye") # two spaces, then backslash, then two more The second example will be a SyntaxError. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list