pradeep <bansal.prad...@gmail.com> writes:

> #!/usr/bin/env python
>     name = "blah"
>     print name

These two lines are indented, but are not inside a block.

> bash# /usr/bin/python sample.py
>   File "sample.py", line 2
>     name = "blah"
>     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Indentation is syntax in Python.

> Any one knows , whats the syntax error here?

You would do well to work through all the exercises in the Python
tutorial <URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/> to get a good grounding
in all the basics like this.

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