Question

I can’t seem to see what’s wrong with this code, yet I get an IndentationError when I run the script.

import web
import json

urls = (
    '/(.*)', 'handleRequest'
)
app = web.application(urls, globals())

class handleRequest:
    def GET(self, method_id):
        if not method_id: 
            return json.dumps({'ok':0})
        else:
            return json.dumps({'ok': method_id})

    def POST(self):
        i = web.input()
        pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

This is the console error messages I get when I attempt to run the script:

>>>     def POST(self):
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    def POST(self):
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>>         i = web.input()
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    i = web.input()
    ^

I have checked the indentation – and its the same 4 spaces I have used throughout the file – am I missing something?!

Answer 1

You’re not “running the script”, you’re typing it into the REPL. Save the contents to a file and execute the file via e.g. python somescript.py.