Newbie: White space

[Daley, MarkX]

Ryan,

You may want to take a quick walk through the tutorial provided for Python
by Guido van Rossum on the Python website, www.python.org, under
documentation.  It provides enough information to make you dangerous, but it
covers the basics of coding in Python.  Hope this helps!

- Mark 



Right, sorry.... I definately did not want to start a flame war....

Mikael Olofsson wrote:

> Ryan!
>
> Welcome to the world of Python. As always, when you learn a new
programming
> language, you have to get used to some things. One of the things you have
> to get used to in Python is the use of indentation.
>
> On 23-Mar-00 Ryan Abrahams wrote:
>  >  Awwww.... so I am guessing i can not lay it out like I layout my C
code....
>
> No, you cannot. Python is not C.
>
>  >  if that is so, then how can you increase readability,
>
> Because indentation is required. It replaces the curly braces in C. You
> are simply forced to use indentation to describe the logical structure
> of your code, as you are forced to use curly braces in C.
>
>  >  or is Python just all
>  >  up against the left hand margin???
>
> No, see pehrs posting.
>
> if condition:
>     what goes in this level
>     belongs to the if statement.
> what goes in this
> level does not.
>
> The same holds for for, while, ...
>
> if you need another if ... or a for ... inside your if ... above, you
> simply indent further.
>
> Read the documentation, and please do not make this into another flame
> war about whitespace. We've had enough of them, and nothing we say in
> the matter will change how indentation works in Python.
>
> Have fun!
>
> /Mikael
>
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