python errors

[scott harwood]

hello my name is scott and I am working on some code for school and im getting an error that me and a group of people do not know why it is happening. the error is "incossistant use of tabs and spaces in indentation.

The first file is my code the second is an print screen of the issue.

[David Jeffrey]

Hi Scott, what text editor are you using? Tabs and spaces are different and you need to use one or the other (preferably spaces) but a good text editor will have a setting that automatically uses spaces when you use the key. Idle even would help and you probably have that installed already.

On 16 May 2014 13:07, "scott harwood" <harwo...@googlemail.com> wrote:

hello my name is scott and I am working on some code for school and im getting an error that me and a group of people do not know why it is happening. the error is "incossistant use of tabs and spaces in indentation.

The first file is my code the second is an print screen of the issue.

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[Alex Kavanagh]

As David says, you’re missing spaces and tabs.  I’ve opened the code in Sublime Text and you’ve used spaces (4 per ‘tab’) on the first 30 lines and then from line 31 onwards, you’ve used tab characters.  As the default for Python is 8 spaces per tab character (but 4 spaces looks nicer!) then code won’t work.

Anyway, I fixed the space/tab problem in the attached file and also give you a better way to call test() at the bottom of the file.  You still have a couple of errors to sort out.

Best of luck

Alex.

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hello my name is scott and I am working on some code for school and im getting an error that me and a group of people do not know why it is happening. the error is "incossistant use of tabs and spaces in indentation.

The first file is my code the second is an print screen of the issue.

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[Rowan Hargreaves]

If you run into this problem again try running tabnanny on your source
code and it will identify indentation inconsistencies (tabs and
spaces). tabnanny is a part of the Python standard library from 2.1.

You can run it by typing at the command line:
python -m tabnanny <file_to_check>

where you need to substitute <file_to_check> for the path of the file
you are wanting to check.

Have a look here for more info:
http://pymotw.com/2/tabnanny/

Good luck with it!

Rowan

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[scott harwood]

thank you i guess it diednt like the text ediitor i was using

[scott....@talktopebble.co.uk]

Hi Scott,

It's usually a case of setting up your text editor to switch tabs for whitespace.
Notepad++: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/455037/notepad-convert-tabs-to-spaces
Gedit: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+question/163516

Most decent editors have plugins/settings that will convert tabs into whitespaces whenever you save the file. Searching "Seting my_editor for Python" will yield some results (replacing my_editor with the name of your editor".

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