On 5 February 2017 at 09:02, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> py3: a
> ['Mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', 'lamb', 'break']
> py3: for w in a:
> ... print(w)
> ... print('Huh?')
> File "<stdin>", line 3
> print('Huh?')
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I don't understand why this throws a SyntaxError. If I wrap
> essentially the same code into a function it works:
>From [1]: "When a compound statement is entered interactively, it must
be followed by a blank line to indicate completion (since the parser
cannot guess when you have typed the last line). Note that each line
within a basic block must be indented by the same amount."
Does that help?
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html
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