Try / Except indentation error

Question

I have been creating a program that sorts files and I need a try to catch an error

here is the code:

    try: 
        shutil.move(path, directory)
    except OSError:
        print 'ERROR: File name already in use'
        quit()

but when I try this the error:

    except OSError:
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected unindent

Any suggestion would be appreciated

Answer 1

Pasting your code into a text editor that shows whitespace, I see you mix tabs and spaces.

This is generally a bad idea - although a tab character may look like four spaces in your editor and on Stack Overflow, Python actually interprets it as a variable number of spaces between 1 and 8! (See Lexical Analysis - Indentation for more detail.)

Rewrite your code so it uses only spaces.

    try: 
        shutil.move(path, directory)
    except OSError:
        print 'ERROR: File name already in use'
        quit()