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When I compile the Python code below, I get
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Why?
Other posters are probably correct...there might be spaces mixed in with your tabs. Try doing a search & replace to replace all tabs with a few spaces.
Try this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
print Factorial(10)
IMPORTANT:
Spaces are the preferred method - see PEP 8 Indentation and Tabs or Spaces?. (Thanks to #Siha for this.)
For Sublime Text users:
Set Sublime Text to use tabs for indentation:
View --> Indentation --> Convert Indentation to Tabs
Uncheck the Indent Using Spaces option as well in the same sub-menu above.
This will immediately resolve this issue.
To easily check for problems with tabs/spaces you can actually do this:
python -m tabnanny yourfile.py
or you can just set up your editor correctly of course :-)
Are you sure you are not mixing tabs and spaces in your indentation white space? (That will cause that error.)
Note, it is recommended that you don't use tabs in Python code. See the style guide. You should configure Notepad++ to insert spaces for tabs.
Whenever I've encountered this error, it's because I've somehow mixed up tabs and spaces in my editor.
If you are using Vim, hit escape and then type
gg=G
This auto indents everything and will clear up any spaces you have thrown in.
If you use Python's IDLE editor you can do as it suggests in one of similar error messages:
1) select all, e.g. Ctrl + A
2) Go to Format -> Untabify Region
3) Double check your indenting is still correct, save and rerun your program.
I'm using Python 2.5.4
The line: result = result * i should be indented (it is the body of the for-loop).
Or - you have mixed space and tab characters
For Spyder users goto
Source > Fix Indentation
to fix the issue immediately
Using Visual studio code
If you are using vs code than, it will convert all mix Indentation to either space or tabs using this simple steps below.
press Ctrl + Shift + p
type indent using spaces
Press Enter
On Atom
go to
Packages > Whitespace > Convert Spaces to Tabs
Then check again your file indentation:
python -m tabnanny yourFile.py
or
>python
>>> help("yourFile.py")
If you use notepad++, do a "replace" with extended search mode to find \t and replace with four spaces.
Looks to be an indentation problem. You don't have to match curly brackets in Python but you do have to match indentation levels.
The best way to prevent space/tab problems is to display invisible characters within your text editor. This will give you a quick way to prevent and/or resolve indentation-related errors.
Also, injecting copy-pasted code is a common source for this type of problem.
If you use colab, then you can do avoid the error by this commands.
< Ctrl-A >
< Tab >
< Shift-Tab >
It's all [tab] indentation convert to [space] indentation. Then OK.
Just a addition. I had a similar problem with the both indentations in Notepad++.
Unexcepted indentation
Outer Indentation Level
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \t with four spaces
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \n with nothing
I was using Jupyter notebook and tried almost all of the above solutions (adapting to my scenario) to no use. I then went line by line, deleted all spaces for each line and replaced with tab. That solved the issue.
For what its worth, my docstring was indented too much and this also throws the same error
class junk:
"""docstring is indented too much"""
def fun(): return
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I'm using Sublime text in Ubuntu OS. To fix this issue go to
view -> Indentation -> convert indentation to tabs
It could be because the function above it is not indented the same way.
i.e.
class a:
def blah:
print("Hello world")
def blah1:
print("Hello world")
Since I realize there's no answer specific to spyder,I'll add one:
Basically, carefully look at your if statement and make sure all if, elif and else have the same spacing that is they're in the same line at the start like so:
def your_choice(answer):
if answer>5:
print("You're overaged")
elif answer<=5 and answer>1:
print("Welcome to the toddler's club!")
else:
print("No worries mate!")
I am using Sublime Text 3 with a Flask project. I fixed the error using View > Indentation > Tab Width: 4 after unselected Indent Using Spaces
This is because there is a mix-up of both tabs and spaces.
You can either remove all the spaces and replace them with tabs.
Or,
Try writing this:
#!/usr/bin/python -tt
at the beginning of the code. This line resolves any differences between tabs and spaces.
I had the same issue yesterday, it was indentation error, was using sublime text editor. took my hours trying to fix it and at the end I ended up copying the code into VI text editor and it just worked fine. ps python is too whitespace sensitive, make sure not to mix space and tab.
for Atom Users, Packages ->whitspace -> remove trailing whitespaces
this worked for me
I had a function defined, but it did not had any content apart from its function comments...
def foo(bar):
# Some awesome temporary comment.
# But there is actually nothing in the function!
# D'Oh!
It yelled :
File "foobar.py", line 69
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
(note that the line the ^ mark points to is empty)
--
Multiple solutions:
1: Just comment out the function
2: Add function comment
def foo(bar):
'' Some awesome comment. This comment could be just one space.''
3: Add line that does nothing
def foo(bar):
0
In any case, make sure to make it obvious why it is an empty function - for yourself, or for your peers that will use your code
Firstly, just to remind you there is a logical error you better keep result=1 or else your output will be result=0 even after the loop runs.
Secondly you can write it like this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 0
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Leaving a line will tell the python shell that the FOR statements have ended. If you have experience using the python shell then you can understand why we have to leave a line.
For example:
1. def convert_distance(miles):
2. km = miles * 1.6
3. return km
In this code same situation occurred for me. Just delete the previous indent spaces of
line 2 and 3, and then either use tab or space. Never use both. Give proper indentation while writing code in python.
For Spyder goto Source > Fix Indentation. Same goes to VC Code and sublime text or any other editor. Fix the indentation.
I got this error even though I didn't have any tabs in my code, and the reason was there was a superfluous closing parenthesis somewhere in my code. I should have figured this out earlier because it was messing up spaces before and after some equal signs... If you find anything off even after running Reformat code in your IDE (or manually running autopep8), make sure all your parentheses match, starting backwards from the weird spaces before/after the first equals sign.
I had the same error because of another thing, it was not about tabs vs. spaces. I had the first if slightly more indented than an else: much further down. If it is just about a space or two, you might oversee it after a long code block. Same thing with docstrings:
"""comment comment
comment
"""
They also need to be aligned, see the other answer on the same page here.
Reproducible with a few lines:
if a==1:
print('test')
else:
print('test2')
Throws:
File "<ipython-input-127-52bbac35ad7d>", line 3
else:
^
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I actually get this in pylint from a bracket in the wrong place.
I'm adding this answer because I sent a lot of time looking for tabs.
In this case, it has nothing to do with tabs or spaces.
def some_instance_function(self):
json_response = self.some_other_function()
def compare_result(json_str, variable):
"""
Sub function for comparison
"""
json_value = self.json_response.get(json_str, f"{json_str} not found")
if str(json_value) != str(variable):
logging.error("Error message: %s, %s",
json_value,
variable) # <-- Putting the bracket here causes the error below
#) <-- Moving the bracket here fixes the issue
return False
return True
logging.debug("Response: %s", self.json_response)
# ^----The pylint error reports here
When I compile the Python code below, I get
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Why?
Other posters are probably correct...there might be spaces mixed in with your tabs. Try doing a search & replace to replace all tabs with a few spaces.
Try this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
print Factorial(10)
IMPORTANT:
Spaces are the preferred method - see PEP 8 Indentation and Tabs or Spaces?. (Thanks to #Siha for this.)
For Sublime Text users:
Set Sublime Text to use tabs for indentation:
View --> Indentation --> Convert Indentation to Tabs
Uncheck the Indent Using Spaces option as well in the same sub-menu above.
This will immediately resolve this issue.
To easily check for problems with tabs/spaces you can actually do this:
python -m tabnanny yourfile.py
or you can just set up your editor correctly of course :-)
Are you sure you are not mixing tabs and spaces in your indentation white space? (That will cause that error.)
Note, it is recommended that you don't use tabs in Python code. See the style guide. You should configure Notepad++ to insert spaces for tabs.
Whenever I've encountered this error, it's because I've somehow mixed up tabs and spaces in my editor.
If you are using Vim, hit escape and then type
gg=G
This auto indents everything and will clear up any spaces you have thrown in.
If you use Python's IDLE editor you can do as it suggests in one of similar error messages:
1) select all, e.g. Ctrl + A
2) Go to Format -> Untabify Region
3) Double check your indenting is still correct, save and rerun your program.
I'm using Python 2.5.4
The line: result = result * i should be indented (it is the body of the for-loop).
Or - you have mixed space and tab characters
For Spyder users goto
Source > Fix Indentation
to fix the issue immediately
Using Visual studio code
If you are using vs code than, it will convert all mix Indentation to either space or tabs using this simple steps below.
press Ctrl + Shift + p
type indent using spaces
Press Enter
On Atom
go to
Packages > Whitespace > Convert Spaces to Tabs
Then check again your file indentation:
python -m tabnanny yourFile.py
or
>python
>>> help("yourFile.py")
If you use notepad++, do a "replace" with extended search mode to find \t and replace with four spaces.
Looks to be an indentation problem. You don't have to match curly brackets in Python but you do have to match indentation levels.
The best way to prevent space/tab problems is to display invisible characters within your text editor. This will give you a quick way to prevent and/or resolve indentation-related errors.
Also, injecting copy-pasted code is a common source for this type of problem.
If you use colab, then you can do avoid the error by this commands.
< Ctrl-A >
< Tab >
< Shift-Tab >
It's all [tab] indentation convert to [space] indentation. Then OK.
Just a addition. I had a similar problem with the both indentations in Notepad++.
Unexcepted indentation
Outer Indentation Level
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \t with four spaces
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \n with nothing
I was using Jupyter notebook and tried almost all of the above solutions (adapting to my scenario) to no use. I then went line by line, deleted all spaces for each line and replaced with tab. That solved the issue.
For what its worth, my docstring was indented too much and this also throws the same error
class junk:
"""docstring is indented too much"""
def fun(): return
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I'm using Sublime text in Ubuntu OS. To fix this issue go to
view -> Indentation -> convert indentation to tabs
It could be because the function above it is not indented the same way.
i.e.
class a:
def blah:
print("Hello world")
def blah1:
print("Hello world")
Since I realize there's no answer specific to spyder,I'll add one:
Basically, carefully look at your if statement and make sure all if, elif and else have the same spacing that is they're in the same line at the start like so:
def your_choice(answer):
if answer>5:
print("You're overaged")
elif answer<=5 and answer>1:
print("Welcome to the toddler's club!")
else:
print("No worries mate!")
I am using Sublime Text 3 with a Flask project. I fixed the error using View > Indentation > Tab Width: 4 after unselected Indent Using Spaces
This is because there is a mix-up of both tabs and spaces.
You can either remove all the spaces and replace them with tabs.
Or,
Try writing this:
#!/usr/bin/python -tt
at the beginning of the code. This line resolves any differences between tabs and spaces.
I had the same issue yesterday, it was indentation error, was using sublime text editor. took my hours trying to fix it and at the end I ended up copying the code into VI text editor and it just worked fine. ps python is too whitespace sensitive, make sure not to mix space and tab.
for Atom Users, Packages ->whitspace -> remove trailing whitespaces
this worked for me
I had a function defined, but it did not had any content apart from its function comments...
def foo(bar):
# Some awesome temporary comment.
# But there is actually nothing in the function!
# D'Oh!
It yelled :
File "foobar.py", line 69
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
(note that the line the ^ mark points to is empty)
--
Multiple solutions:
1: Just comment out the function
2: Add function comment
def foo(bar):
'' Some awesome comment. This comment could be just one space.''
3: Add line that does nothing
def foo(bar):
0
In any case, make sure to make it obvious why it is an empty function - for yourself, or for your peers that will use your code
Firstly, just to remind you there is a logical error you better keep result=1 or else your output will be result=0 even after the loop runs.
Secondly you can write it like this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 0
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Leaving a line will tell the python shell that the FOR statements have ended. If you have experience using the python shell then you can understand why we have to leave a line.
For example:
1. def convert_distance(miles):
2. km = miles * 1.6
3. return km
In this code same situation occurred for me. Just delete the previous indent spaces of
line 2 and 3, and then either use tab or space. Never use both. Give proper indentation while writing code in python.
For Spyder goto Source > Fix Indentation. Same goes to VC Code and sublime text or any other editor. Fix the indentation.
I got this error even though I didn't have any tabs in my code, and the reason was there was a superfluous closing parenthesis somewhere in my code. I should have figured this out earlier because it was messing up spaces before and after some equal signs... If you find anything off even after running Reformat code in your IDE (or manually running autopep8), make sure all your parentheses match, starting backwards from the weird spaces before/after the first equals sign.
I had the same error because of another thing, it was not about tabs vs. spaces. I had the first if slightly more indented than an else: much further down. If it is just about a space or two, you might oversee it after a long code block. Same thing with docstrings:
"""comment comment
comment
"""
They also need to be aligned, see the other answer on the same page here.
Reproducible with a few lines:
if a==1:
print('test')
else:
print('test2')
Throws:
File "<ipython-input-127-52bbac35ad7d>", line 3
else:
^
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I actually get this in pylint from a bracket in the wrong place.
I'm adding this answer because I sent a lot of time looking for tabs.
In this case, it has nothing to do with tabs or spaces.
def some_instance_function(self):
json_response = self.some_other_function()
def compare_result(json_str, variable):
"""
Sub function for comparison
"""
json_value = self.json_response.get(json_str, f"{json_str} not found")
if str(json_value) != str(variable):
logging.error("Error message: %s, %s",
json_value,
variable) # <-- Putting the bracket here causes the error below
#) <-- Moving the bracket here fixes the issue
return False
return True
logging.debug("Response: %s", self.json_response)
# ^----The pylint error reports here
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I'm getting an IndentationError. How do I fix it?
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Closed 3 years ago.
I can't compile because of this part in my code:
if command == 'HOWMANY':
opcodegroupr = "A0"
opcoder = "85"
elif command == 'IDENTIFY':
opcodegroupr = "A0"
opcoder = "81"
I have this error:
Sorry: IndentationError: ('unindent does not match any outer indentation level', ('wsn.py', 1016, 30, "\t\telif command == 'IDENTIFY':\n"))
But I don't see any indentation error. What can be the problem?
You are mixing tabs and spaces.
Find the exact location with:
python -tt yourscript.py
and replace all tabs with spaces. You really want to configure your text editor to only insert spaces for tabs as well.
In doubt change your editor to make tabs and spaces visible. It is also a very good idea to have the editor resolve all tabs to 4 spaces.
For Sublime Text Editor
Indentation Error generally occurs when the code contains a mix of both tabs and spaces for indentation. I have got a very nice solution to correct it, just open your code in a sublime text editor and find 'Tab Size' in the bottom right corner of Sublime Text Editor and click it. Now select either
'Convert Indentation to Spaces'
OR
'Convert Indentation to Tabs'
Your code will work in either case.
Additionally, if you want Sublime text to do it automatically for you for every code you can update the Preference settings as below:-
Sublime Text menu > Preferences > Settings - Syntax Specific :
Python.sublime-settings
{
"tab_size": 4,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true
}
In Notepad++
View --->Show Symbols --->Show White Spaces and Tabs(select)
replace all tabs with spaces.
It happened to me also, but I got the problem solved. I was using an indentation of 5 spaces, but when I pressed tab, it used to put a four space indent. So I think you should just use one thing; i.e. either tab button to add indent or spaces. And an ideal indentation is one of 4 spaces. I found IntelliJ to be very useful for these sort of things.
Did you maybe use some <tab> instead of spaces?
Try remove all the spaces before the code and readd them using <space> characters, just to be sure it's not a <tab>.
This has happened with me too, python is space sensitive,
so after " : "(colon)
you might have left a space,
for example:
[space is represented by "."]
`if command == 'HOWMANY':.
opcodegroupr = "A0"
opcoder = "85"
elif command == 'IDENTIFY':.
opcodegroupr = "A0"
opcoder = "81"`
so try removing the unnecessary spaces,if you open it in IDE your cursor will be displayed away from ":" something like :- "if command == 'HOWMANY': |"
....whereas it should be:- "if command == 'HOWMANY':| "
Here is my code ... I am getting indentation error but i don't know why it occurs.
->
# loop
while d <= end_date:
# print d.strftime("%Y%m%d")
fecha = d.strftime("%Y%m%d")
# set url
url = 'http://www.wpemergencia.omie.es//datosPub/marginalpdbc/marginalpdbc_' + fecha + '.1'
# Descargamos fichero
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
# Abrimos fichero
output = open(fname,'wb')
# Escribimos fichero
output.write(response.read())
# Cerramos y guardamos fichero
output.close()
# fecha++
d += delta
Run your program with
python -t script.py
This will warn you if you have mixed tabs and spaces.
On *nix systems, you can see where the tabs are by running
cat -A script.py
and you can automatically convert tabs to 4 spaces with the command
expand -t 4 script.py > fixed_script.py
PS. Be sure to use a programming editor (e.g. emacs, vim), not a word processor, when programming. You won't get this problem with a programming editor.
PPS. For emacs users, M-x whitespace-mode will show the same info as cat -A from within an emacs buffer!
find all tabs and replaced by 4 spaces in notepad ++ .It worked.
Check if you mixed tabs and spaces, that is a frequent source of indentation errors.
You can't mix tab and spaces for identation. Best practice is to convert all tabs to spaces.
How to fix this? Well just delete all the spaces/tabs before each line and convert them uniformly either to tabs OR spaces, but don't mix. Best solution: enable in your Editor the option to convert automagically any tabs to spaces.
Also be aware that your actual problem may lie in the lines before this block, and python throws the error here, because of a leading invalid indentation which doesn't match the following identations!
Simply copy your script and put under """ your entire code """ ...
specify this line in a variable.. like,
a = """ your entire code """
print a.replace(' ',' ') # first 4 spaces tab second four space from space bar
print a.replace('here please press tab button it will insert some space"," here simply press space bar four times")
# here we replacing tab space by four char space as per pep 8 style guide..
now execute this code, in sublime using ctrl+b, now it will print indented code in console. that's it
When I compile the Python code below, I get
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Why?
Other posters are probably correct...there might be spaces mixed in with your tabs. Try doing a search & replace to replace all tabs with a few spaces.
Try this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # return factorial
result = 1
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
print Factorial(10)
IMPORTANT:
Spaces are the preferred method - see PEP 8 Indentation and Tabs or Spaces?. (Thanks to #Siha for this.)
For Sublime Text users:
Set Sublime Text to use tabs for indentation:
View --> Indentation --> Convert Indentation to Tabs
Uncheck the Indent Using Spaces option as well in the same sub-menu above.
This will immediately resolve this issue.
To easily check for problems with tabs/spaces you can actually do this:
python -m tabnanny yourfile.py
or you can just set up your editor correctly of course :-)
Are you sure you are not mixing tabs and spaces in your indentation white space? (That will cause that error.)
Note, it is recommended that you don't use tabs in Python code. See the style guide. You should configure Notepad++ to insert spaces for tabs.
Whenever I've encountered this error, it's because I've somehow mixed up tabs and spaces in my editor.
If you are using Vim, hit escape and then type
gg=G
This auto indents everything and will clear up any spaces you have thrown in.
If you use Python's IDLE editor you can do as it suggests in one of similar error messages:
1) select all, e.g. Ctrl + A
2) Go to Format -> Untabify Region
3) Double check your indenting is still correct, save and rerun your program.
I'm using Python 2.5.4
The line: result = result * i should be indented (it is the body of the for-loop).
Or - you have mixed space and tab characters
For Spyder users goto
Source > Fix Indentation
to fix the issue immediately
Using Visual studio code
If you are using vs code than, it will convert all mix Indentation to either space or tabs using this simple steps below.
press Ctrl + Shift + p
type indent using spaces
Press Enter
On Atom
go to
Packages > Whitespace > Convert Spaces to Tabs
Then check again your file indentation:
python -m tabnanny yourFile.py
or
>python
>>> help("yourFile.py")
If you use notepad++, do a "replace" with extended search mode to find \t and replace with four spaces.
Looks to be an indentation problem. You don't have to match curly brackets in Python but you do have to match indentation levels.
The best way to prevent space/tab problems is to display invisible characters within your text editor. This will give you a quick way to prevent and/or resolve indentation-related errors.
Also, injecting copy-pasted code is a common source for this type of problem.
If you use colab, then you can do avoid the error by this commands.
< Ctrl-A >
< Tab >
< Shift-Tab >
It's all [tab] indentation convert to [space] indentation. Then OK.
Just a addition. I had a similar problem with the both indentations in Notepad++.
Unexcepted indentation
Outer Indentation Level
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \t with four spaces
Go to ----> Search tab ----> tap on replace ----> hit the radio button Extended below ---> Now replace \n with nothing
I was using Jupyter notebook and tried almost all of the above solutions (adapting to my scenario) to no use. I then went line by line, deleted all spaces for each line and replaced with tab. That solved the issue.
For what its worth, my docstring was indented too much and this also throws the same error
class junk:
"""docstring is indented too much"""
def fun(): return
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I'm using Sublime text in Ubuntu OS. To fix this issue go to
view -> Indentation -> convert indentation to tabs
It could be because the function above it is not indented the same way.
i.e.
class a:
def blah:
print("Hello world")
def blah1:
print("Hello world")
Since I realize there's no answer specific to spyder,I'll add one:
Basically, carefully look at your if statement and make sure all if, elif and else have the same spacing that is they're in the same line at the start like so:
def your_choice(answer):
if answer>5:
print("You're overaged")
elif answer<=5 and answer>1:
print("Welcome to the toddler's club!")
else:
print("No worries mate!")
I am using Sublime Text 3 with a Flask project. I fixed the error using View > Indentation > Tab Width: 4 after unselected Indent Using Spaces
This is because there is a mix-up of both tabs and spaces.
You can either remove all the spaces and replace them with tabs.
Or,
Try writing this:
#!/usr/bin/python -tt
at the beginning of the code. This line resolves any differences between tabs and spaces.
I had the same issue yesterday, it was indentation error, was using sublime text editor. took my hours trying to fix it and at the end I ended up copying the code into VI text editor and it just worked fine. ps python is too whitespace sensitive, make sure not to mix space and tab.
for Atom Users, Packages ->whitspace -> remove trailing whitespaces
this worked for me
I had a function defined, but it did not had any content apart from its function comments...
def foo(bar):
# Some awesome temporary comment.
# But there is actually nothing in the function!
# D'Oh!
It yelled :
File "foobar.py", line 69
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
(note that the line the ^ mark points to is empty)
--
Multiple solutions:
1: Just comment out the function
2: Add function comment
def foo(bar):
'' Some awesome comment. This comment could be just one space.''
3: Add line that does nothing
def foo(bar):
0
In any case, make sure to make it obvious why it is an empty function - for yourself, or for your peers that will use your code
Firstly, just to remind you there is a logical error you better keep result=1 or else your output will be result=0 even after the loop runs.
Secondly you can write it like this:
import sys
def Factorial(n): # Return factorial
result = 0
for i in range (1,n):
result = result * i
print "factorial is ",result
return result
Leaving a line will tell the python shell that the FOR statements have ended. If you have experience using the python shell then you can understand why we have to leave a line.
For example:
1. def convert_distance(miles):
2. km = miles * 1.6
3. return km
In this code same situation occurred for me. Just delete the previous indent spaces of
line 2 and 3, and then either use tab or space. Never use both. Give proper indentation while writing code in python.
For Spyder goto Source > Fix Indentation. Same goes to VC Code and sublime text or any other editor. Fix the indentation.
I got this error even though I didn't have any tabs in my code, and the reason was there was a superfluous closing parenthesis somewhere in my code. I should have figured this out earlier because it was messing up spaces before and after some equal signs... If you find anything off even after running Reformat code in your IDE (or manually running autopep8), make sure all your parentheses match, starting backwards from the weird spaces before/after the first equals sign.
I had the same error because of another thing, it was not about tabs vs. spaces. I had the first if slightly more indented than an else: much further down. If it is just about a space or two, you might oversee it after a long code block. Same thing with docstrings:
"""comment comment
comment
"""
They also need to be aligned, see the other answer on the same page here.
Reproducible with a few lines:
if a==1:
print('test')
else:
print('test2')
Throws:
File "<ipython-input-127-52bbac35ad7d>", line 3
else:
^
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level
I actually get this in pylint from a bracket in the wrong place.
I'm adding this answer because I sent a lot of time looking for tabs.
In this case, it has nothing to do with tabs or spaces.
def some_instance_function(self):
json_response = self.some_other_function()
def compare_result(json_str, variable):
"""
Sub function for comparison
"""
json_value = self.json_response.get(json_str, f"{json_str} not found")
if str(json_value) != str(variable):
logging.error("Error message: %s, %s",
json_value,
variable) # <-- Putting the bracket here causes the error below
#) <-- Moving the bracket here fixes the issue
return False
return True
logging.debug("Response: %s", self.json_response)
# ^----The pylint error reports here