Cai Gengyang wrote:
How are you running the interactive interpreter? Are you using IDLE, or are you running Python in a command window? --- IDLE
I don't normally use IDLE on MacOSX, so I had to try it to find out. I think I know what your problem is now. When you type a line into IDLE ending with a colon and press enter, it automatically indents the next line, and it does it using *tab* characters. You can see this by selecting the indentation with the mouse. You'll notice that it highlights in big chunks -- those are tab characters. This means that any extra indentation you add yourself also needs to be done by pressing the tab key, not the space bar, otherwise you risk mixing up tabs and spaces in ways that Python doesn't like. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
