if else statement not working.

[MadanBurathi]

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)

[LucasDanzinger]

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)

[RhettZufelt]

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.

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