Python error

[wingnut2626]

def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]
if not args:
print "usage: [--todir dir][--tozip zipfile] dir [dir ...]";
sys.exit(1)


elif args[0] == '--todir':
todir = args[1]
del args[0:2]
if args:
destination = args[0]
copytodir(todir, destination)
else:
print 'error, closing.'
sys.exit(1)

In my IDE the bold line conforms to the indent, but how come here it does not? and when I try to run it I get an unexpected indent Traceback?

[wingnut2626]

<CODE>

def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]
if not args:
print "usage: [--todir dir][--tozip zipfile] dir [dir ...]";
sys.exit(1)


elif args[0] == '--todir':
todir = args[1]
del args[0:2]
if args:
destination = args[0]
copytodir(todir, destination)
else:
print 'error, closing.'
sys.exit(1)
</CODE>

should be more like it

[wingnut2626]

grrr now i cant even post code correctly.....

[Cheesemill]

You need to use [CODE] [/CODE] tags to put a block of code in your post

[wingnut2626]

LOL I figured it out. For some reason geany and gedit were showing the code as properly edited. When I opened the code in kate and nano, it showed me where the indentation was off. I think it will be kate for me in the long haul.

[Vaphell]

This happens when you mix spaces and tabs - visually the same, logically not so much. Personally i set gedit to replace tabs with 2 spaces.