What to do with “Unexpected indent” in python?

Question

How do I rectify the error \"unexpected indent\" in python?

Answer 1

It depends in the context. Another scenario which wasn't yet covered is the following. Let's say you have one file with a class with a specific method in it

class Scraper:
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def scrape_html(self, html: str):
        pass

and in the bottom of the file you have something like

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # some
    # commands
    # doing
    # stuff

making it the whole file look like this

class Scraper:
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def scrape_html(self, html: str):
        pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # some
    # commands
    # doing
    # stuff

If in scrape_html() you open up, for example, an if/else statement

class Scraper:
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def scrape_html(self, html: str):
        if condition:
            pass
        else:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

You'll need to add pass or whatever you want to to that else statement or else you'll get

Expected indented block

Unindent not expected

Expected expression

and in the first row

Unexpected indentation

Adding that pass would fix all of these four problems.