On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 1:34:32 PM UTC+5:30, paul.ant...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 9:56:06 AM UTC+2, shiva upreti wrote: > > https://ideone.com/BPflPk > > > > Please tell me why 'print s' statement is being executed inside loop, > > though I put it outside. > > Please help. I am new to python. > > Hi! > > Welcome to python, the most awesome programming language! > > The code you pasted used both spaces and tabs for indentation. The thing is > that python, by default, interprets one tab character as 8 spaces, but the > editor you've used shows it as 4 spaces. To avoid these kinds of headaches, I > always 1) set my editor to show tabs, so I can detect them, and 2) never use > tabs when I write code myself. I set my editor to insert 4 spaces whenever I > hit the "tab" key on my keyboard. If you post the name of your editor, maybe > someone knows how to do that in yours. You can also detect mixed space/tab > issues by running "python -t" instead of just "python". > > So, your "print s" is in fact inside the loop, since the for loop is indented > with 4 spaces, and "print s" is indented with 1 tab = 8 spaces. It just > doesn't look like that to you. > > It looks like you're coding in python 2. If you're new to python, I'd > recommend using a python 3 version, maybe 3.4 or 3.5. You can easily pick up > python 2 later if you need to maintain old code. Of course, it's not a big > deal learning python 3 if you know python 2 either, but why spend energy on > it? > > Cheers > Paul
Thanks.:) I use gedit in ubuntu 1 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
