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I want to add a quick note about this spacing that we see in this code.

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Now this isn't just for python.

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In other languages you'll always see this.

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You're not going to see that every single line of code always starts as well in the first space different

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languages will use this differently.

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But in order to organize code usually you'll see some indentation like this now.

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Python however is unique because the indentation in spaces that we see here makes the interpreter see

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it and say Hey this means something.

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The interpreter would actually see the space and say because there's space here I know that this is

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part of the if block in other languages like Javascript.

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Well you have something similar but usually you'll have an if statement and then some condition followed

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by make sure I spell condition right followed by something like a curly brace and in here whatever is

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in here you can see that I still get the space and I can do whatever I want but javascript interpreter

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doesn't really care that they're spaces if I want I could write my code just on the one line like this.

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And it's still valid a javascript code so people usually do the spacing more for style purposes.

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Python on the other hand is not just for styling that would do this but because the interpreter actually

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finds meaning in the spaces which is actually one of the big selling point with Python.

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It's very clean there's no extra stuff here that makes it difficult.

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I mean it's just English right.

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If it's old and if is licensed then print this is just really nice to read and really clean.

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Now if you notice you're my editor and we're going to talk about editors and ideas in an upcoming section.

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But if you're using the proper tools this automatically is created for you now in the programming world.

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There's this debate about tabs and spaces and we're going to get into it.

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It's frankly a little bit silly that is.

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Some people prefer to hear if they want to create a space they might use spaces or they might use tabs

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at the end of the day with Python.

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The rule is we can use spaces you can use the tab but the idea that if you use spaces you usually use

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for spaces is just a standard.

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Now if you notice here I actually don't have four spaces it's two spaces here and that is because up

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until now Well I've just been following along whatever this editor gives me.

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But if you look over here there's an auto format button.

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If I click on this it automatically formats my code into the appropriate format and you see right over

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here that I now have four spaces.

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But you see that the code still works.

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Again it's because at the end of the day the important part is that there is a distinction between hierarchies.

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That is the top.

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And then maybe the children but the interpreter itself is going to notice these spaces.

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So you do have to be careful because based on where this print is as soon as I add a tab in here and

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I click Run what I get is old and is licensed.

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But as soon as one of this is false and I click Run you see that.

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OK.

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OK.

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He runs only if this condition fails again.

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If previously both of these were true I only get the first line printed.

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So that little space here changes the outcome of my program.

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So you have to really be careful with this.

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And luckily your editor or where you code is going to help you out with this but it is a gotcha that

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if you're just starting out you want to be mindful of.

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All right.

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No more debates about spaces and tasks.

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I'll see in the next video by.