[Tutor] else syntax error problem

[Nigel Pauli]

I am having the strangest problem here.
I am completely new to python (and programming, really) and am happily
working my way through the van Laningham book. In the spirit of learning
by doing rather than just reading I have been typing in his excellent
screen shots [could be a tad larger for easier reading, mind you] and I've
come unstuck on the ones to do with else and elif. Here's what I see in my
*Python Shell* window when working through fig 4.8 which is an amusing
little number that does a rocket countdown leading to Blastoff!

 >>> for i in range(10,-1,-1):
          if i != 0:
                    print i
                    else:

 SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 >>>

What should continue after else is...
                    print "Blastoff!"

What it looks like is that the part of python that handles else and elif
is missing - but that's daft, isn't it? Is it significant that that else:
below print i isn't hanging indented to be back underneath the if 2 lines
above?

If it helps, I'm using Python 1.5.2 on Mandrake Linux 7.0.

Many thanks to anyone who can penetrate the fog for me on this one.

Nigel.


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Nigel Pauli
Nigel@pauli.demon.co.uk