> And all the lines that belong to the statement also. It does not matter if > is a nested sequence. Let me lighten you: > > for i in somelist: > do_something > do_something_else > if x==y: > inside the if clause > all statements go > with 4 spaces after the if line > elif x>y: > the same here
While this is good advice Python doesn't mind if the elif uses different indentation to the if. Indeed each elif block could be different, so long as its consistent within the block. But that could lead to very wierd code: if something: do a thing and this elif another : do another thing and that elif what: something here and here else: pass Now visually that's a mess but Python won't complain because each block is consistent. So to please Python be consistent inside a block, but to make it readable be consistent across all blocks! Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor