syntax-error?

[Erik Max Francis]

Stefan Antoni wrote:

> I got the following script and it produces a syntax error which drives
> me crazy. it says:
> 
> File "<string>", line 24
>   j = 0 # a counter
>   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Why?
	...
> def ExtractData(in_string, start_line, end_line):
>     lstr = in_string.splitlines()
>         j = 0 # a counter
	...

You have an indentation problem.  The offending line is on a different
indentation level that the line preceding it, but the preceding line
doesn't start a new block.

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