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The following is the class that received the IndentationError: unexpected indent. I got the error when "from reader.reader import Reader". Which indent is not supposed to? Thanks.

 class Reader:
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename
        self.f = open(self.filename, 'rt')

    def close(self):
        self.f.close()

    def read(self):
        return self.f.read()

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "...\Python Project\venv\Main.py", line 1, in <module>
    from reader.reader import Reader
  File "...\Python Project\venv\reader.py", line 1
    class Reader:
IndentationError: unexpected indent

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Copy and paste likely fixed the error because I have no problems. It could be a mix of tabs and spaces. All indentation should be 4 spaces. My editor sees your indentation as 3 spaces for the first level (def's) and 4 spaces for the second level. That is bad, but usually not a syntax error.

(May-01-2022, 10:44 PM)deanhystad Wrote: [ -> ]Copy and paste likely fixed the error because I have no problems. It could be a mix of tabs and spaces. All indentation should be 4 spaces. My editor sees your indentation as 3 spaces for the first level (def's) and 4 spaces for the second level. That is bad, but usually not a syntax error.

Thanks. It is working now.