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Indentation

• Indentation:
• Indentation refers to the spaces at the beginning of a code line.
• Where in other programming languages the indentation in code
is for readability only, the indentation in Python is very
important.
• Python uses indentation to indicate a block of code.
• Python indentation is a way of telling a Python interpreter that
the group of statements belongs to a particular block of code.
• A block is a combination of all these statements.
• Block can be regarded as the grouping of statements for a
specific purpose
Indentation
• Indentation:

• Python uses indentation to highlight the blocks of code.


Whitespace is used for indentation in Python.
• All statements with the same distance to the right belong to the
same block of code.
• If a block has to be more deeply nested, it is simply indented
further to the right
Indentation
• Indentation : Example
# Python program showing
# indentation
site = 'google'
if site == 'google’:
print('Logging on to google...')
else:
print('retype the URL.')
print('All set !')
Output:

Logging on to google...
All set !
Indentation

The lines print(‘Logging on to google…’) and print(‘retype the URL.’) are two separate

code blocks.

The two blocks of code in our example if-statement are both indented four spaces.

 The final print(‘All set!’) is not indented, and so it does not belong to the else-block.

Output:

Logging on to google...
All set !
Indentation
• Indentation : Example 2
j=1
while(j<= 5):
print(j)
j=j+1
• To indicate a block of code in Python, you must indent each line
of the block by the same whitespace.
• The two lines of code in the while loop are both indented four
spaces.
• It is required for indicating what block of code a statement
belongs to.
Indentation

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