Question

I am wondering why this is correct:

for heading in soup.find_all("td", class_="paraheading"):
    key = " ".join(heading.text.split()).rstrip(":")
    if key in columns:
        print key
        next_td = heading.find_next_sibling("td", class_="bodytext")
        value = " ".join(next_td.text.split())
        print value
    if key == "Industry Categories":
        print key
        ic_next_td = heading.find_next_sibling("td", class_="bodytext")
        for value in ic_next_td.strings:
                print value

and this is not:

for heading in soup.find_all("td", class_="paraheading"):
    key = " ".join(heading.text.split()).rstrip(":")
    if key in columns:
        print key
        next_td = heading.find_next_sibling("td", class_="bodytext")
        value = " ".join(next_td.text.split())
        print value
    if key == "Industry Categories":
        print key
        ic_next_td = heading.find_next_sibling("td", class_="bodytext")
        for value in ic_next_td.strings:
            print value

note seemingly double indentation of print value in first code block.

Wouldn’t the next level of indentation down from for value in ic_next_td.strings: be one additional indentation level from this line?

Thanks

Answer 1

You are mixing tabs and spaces. Don’t do this.

Run python -tt yourscript.py to detect any inconsistencies, but most of all, use spaces only throughout.

Configure your editor to use spaces for indentation, and replace all existing tabs with spaces. Most code editors have a function for that.