Problem Commenting within Filehandle Iteration

[Wijaya Edward]

Hi all,

I have the following code:
import sys
import re

ham_count = 0
spam_count = 0
myfile = open('full/index')
for line in myfile.readlines():
p = re.compile('ham')
m = p.match(line)
if m:
print line,
else:
#print 'SPAM -- %s' % line
myfile.close()

Sometime while developing/debugging the code we usually
put in such situation. Where expression under "else"
is not yet supplied, yet we would like see the printout of the
previous "if" condition.

Notice that I wanted to comment out the #print line there.
However I found problem with myfile.close(), with identation error.
This error doesn't occur when commenting (#) is not in use.

Why so? Is there away to do the commenting in correct way
under this circumstances?

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Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE

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[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <ma***************************************@python. org>, Wijaya Edward
wrote:

if m:
print line,
else:
#print 'SPAM -- %s' % line
myfile.close()

[…]

Notice that I wanted to comment out the #print line there.
However I found problem with myfile.close(), with identation error.
This error doesn't occur when commenting (#) is not in use.

Why so? Is there away to do the commenting in correct way
under this circumstances?

There has to be code in the ``else`` block. So either comment out the
``else`` line too, or insert a ``pass`` statement.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch