What is indentation in python?

Indentation is a space given before writing a certain code. It is not so important in other programming language like C, C++, etc. But it has a major role in python.

Python uses indentation to indicate a block of code.

If we’ll not follow a certain indentation, python interpreter will show indentation error.

IndentationError: expected an indented block.

e.g.,

if("python"=="Python")
print("true")

if("python"=="python")
  print("true")

You can see here how important is indentation in python.

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