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| Figure 2 . Output from the script in Listing 4. |
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C:\jnk\6>echo off
34
76
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Then the value 6 is printed by the last statement in the script, which is not part of the group. (Note that the last statement is not indented.)
Now, let's make a change to the script. The script shown in Listing 5 is identical to the one in Listing 4 except that I switched the values of A and B to cause the group of indentedstatements to be bypassed ( B is no longer greater than A ).
| Listing 5 . Another sample script. |
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A = 4
B = 3if B>A:
print(A) # begin groupprint(B)
print(A + B) # end groupA = 6 # not part of above group
print(A)#============================================================
#The output, which is not part of the script, is shown below.6 |
In this case, only one value (6) is printed because the three print statements in the group were bypassed asa group.
The important point here is that the three indented statements in Listing 4 and Listing 5 constitute a group because of their common indentation level .
I personally don't like the idea of using indentation to create grouping. Although it sounds nice in theory, it can be very labor intensive in practice.Once you have written a script, one simple change can often require you to go back and modify the indentation level of almost every statement in the script.
I guess the good news is that this will encourage you to write your script as a series of short, concise independent modules rather than as asingle long rambling script.
I am also concerned about the accessibility or lack thereof that grouping based on indentation level provides for blind and visually impaired students.
Leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) at the beginning of a logical line is used to compute the indentation level of the line. This, in turn, is used todetermine the grouping of statements.
My advice is to avoid the use of tabs altogether. Use spaces instead, and use the same number of spaces for each statement in the group.
However, if you must use tabs, you should go to the Python Language Reference -- 2.1.8. Indentation and make certain that you understand how Python deals with tabs.
Use spaces to cause the indentation level of all statements in a group of statements to be indented to the same level.Statements in a group are either all executed, or all bypassed by the program logic.
I will provide a visualization of the behavior of indentation in the module titled Itse1359-1065-Visualizing Python in this book .
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