Indentation Error From Heroku For This Python Bot. I Cannot See?

Recently I've deployed a python bot on Heroku and every time I try to run it, this error pops up. 2016-12-28 T04:32:08.770156+00:00 app[worker.1]:File 'bot.py', line 43 2016-12-28

Solution 1:

First, you cannot have no code under the if statement. That is the most likely culprit and you can fix this by adding pass in that block. If you want to test this for yourself, you can run the following very simple example and verify that the interpreter gives an error when you try to run it.

if 1 == 1:
else:
    print"This will never print."

Second, it is difficult to tell because of re-encoding on SO, but you may also have mixed spaces and tabs incorrectly. If you are using vim, you can do set list to show the invisible characters and make sure you are consistent.

Solution 2:

Your code has an if statement with no instructions:

if("false"in retweet_ed):
    #call what u want to do here#for example :#fav(tweet_sid)#retweet(tweet_sid)

Python expects an indent, but since everything is commented out, there is none.

This is basically what the error indicates:

2016-12-28 T04:32:08.770168+00:00 app[worker.1]: else:

2016-12-28 T04:32:08.770171+00:00 app[worker.1]:^

2016-12-28 T04:32:08.770172+00:00 app[worker.1]: IndentationError: expected an indented block

You cannot have an else statement that is not following an indented block (that is, an if block, or even a for).

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If you want to keep the if in plain code, add a pass statement, as for the following else:

if("false"in retweet_ed):
    #call what u want to do here#for example :#fav(tweet_sid)#retweet(tweet_sid)pass

Then, the code will not raise any IndentationError.