I'm a Python newbie, currently working on my first project.
My elif statements seem to work in IDLE but not VSC
To demonstrate, I have a very simple if statement:
dud = 'You'
if dud == 'You':
print('You got the dud!')
elif dud == 'Me':
print('ohhhh, I made myself sad')
else:
pass
When I submit this code to IDLE, it works no problem.
However, when I copy paste the exact same code into VSC and run in Python Terminal I get the following errors:
PS C:\Users\William> & C:/Users/William/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python38-32/python.exe
Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 22:39:24) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dud = 'You'>>>
>>> if dud == 'you':
... print('You got the dud!')
...
>>> elif dud == 'Me':
File "<stdin>", line 1
elif dud == 'Me':
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> print('ohhhh, I made myself sad')
File "<stdin>", line 1
print('ohhhh, I made myself sad')
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>> else:
File "<stdin>", line 1
else:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> pass
File "<stdin>", line 1
pass
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>>
Naturally, I've tried various different types of formatting but I can't get it to work. If I remove the elif section it works fine, so I feel like I must be missing something basic.
Any help would be greatly apprecaited!
edit: Increasingly odd behaviour leads me to believe that this is somehow a Visual Studio issue:
Running code in 'Python interactive window" = Successful Fresh Launch
of VSC and using 'Run python file in terminal' = Succesful 'Run
selection/line in terminal' = Error encountered above Running 'Run
python file in terminal' after terminal has already running = error
encountered above
edit: People are rightly pointing out that that it looks like VSC is saying that there is an extra line being added.
I don't think that is the case: here's a screenshot of the code in VSC
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