"adam urbas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > I'm not sure when to indent. I understand that it has to be done.
Ok, But you need to understand *why* it has to be done. To do that you need to understand the basic constructs of programming: sequences, branches, loops and modules. (these are described in the concepts section of my tutorial) Basically each construct is defined by indenting in python. Thus if you have a loop in your code the set of instructions to be repeated is indented. This makes it visually clear what gets repeated. More importantly it tells the Python interpreter what it should repeat! Thus, simplistically, you need to indent anything following a colon. That is after a branch instruction: if/elif/else or a loop: for/while or a function(module) definition: def or inside a class: class The next trick is to determine when to stop indenting and that's actually harder to describe! Its basically when you want Python to stop treating your code as special - eg no longer part of the code to be repeated in a loop. > I need somewhere to start from the beginning. There are several non-programmers tutorials (including mine :-). Try one of them. http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers Dive Into python is an excellent book for experienced programmers or after you have gone through one of those listed above. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
