IndentationError: unexpected indent while web scraping using Selenium and Python

Question

I want to get the id number of the each match and save it in a text file?

from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://vip.win007.com/history/Odds_big.aspx?date=2020-8-1"
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')

container0 = soup.find_all("odds", {"match": "id"})
print container0

with open('c:/logs/kellyrate.txt','a') as kellyrate:
kellyrate.write(container0 + "\n")

After run the script:

>>>IndentationError: unexpected indent

Anyone can help me to solve the problem?

Answer 1

This error message...

IndentationError: unexpected indent

...implies that there were indentation errors in your code block.

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Python Indentation

Indentation refers to the spaces at the beginning of a code line. Python uses indentation to indicate a block of code.

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This usecase

In your program, the line of code:

kellyrate.write(container0 + "\n")

acts as a block of code which will be iterated for each line in c:/logs/kellyrate.txt. So you need to indent this line of code either by:

• tab character
• blank space characters

So your effective code block will be:

with open('c:/logs/kellyrate.txt','a') as kellyrate:
    kellyrate.write(container0 + "\n")