It's not a bug, it's a design choice you are disagreeing with: managing
indentation is your job, not the interpreter's. For anything other than
an absolutely trivial three-line script, I write in an editor that does
a good job helping me manage indentation (in my case, emacs in Python
mode).
<mikedianete...@gmail.com> writes:
> The following snap shot of system prompt illustrates my problem. I have
> tried 3.8, 3.92 and 3.10 with the same result. When I run in the window
> interface it doesn't even display one row of ... but does print if I hit
> return twice. I'm new to Python and was excited about learning it but am
> becoming very frustrated over a bug in such a simple conditional statement
> - please help as I would really like to master Python.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Terry
>
>
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.867]
>
> (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>py
>
>
>
> Python 3.8.8 (tags/v3.8.8:024d805, Feb 19 2021, 13:18:16) [MSC v.1928 64
> bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> more information.
>
>
>
> >>> dog_has_fleas=True
>
> >>> if dog_has_fleas:
>
> ... print('too bad')
>
> File "<stdin>", line 2
>
> print('too bad')
>
> ^
>
> IndentationError: expected an indented block
>
> >>> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.867]
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from [1]Mail for Windows 10
>
>
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986
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