if else statement not working.

Question

Hi this is madan I am new in Arcpy scirpting I was just writting follwong program in python window in Arcgis10.1 there is comming parsing error as shown below.
please someone help me how to correct it.

>>> def mm(var):
...     if var==200:
...         print "I am madan"
...         print ""
...         else:
...             print "I am nothing"
...             print ""
...             
Parsing error SyntaxError: invalid syntax (line 5)

rzufelt · Answer

One of the first things you need to know about python is that indentation is everything.

That is how it keeps track of your if blocks, etc.

That is why Lucas's re-write works for him.

R_

Lucas Danzinger · Answer

It is kind of hard to tell without you using the  tags, for formatting purposes... The following works fine for me:

def mm(var):
    if var==200:
        print "I am madan"
        print ""
    else:
        print "I am nothing"
        print ""

mm(200)