6. Whitespace Errors

Whitespace is mainly made up of spaces, tabs and return characters.

Extra spaces can sometimes work even if they shoudn’t be there.

Sometimes extra spaces can also cause errors.

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6.1. Whitespace before parentheses in button method: Error

In the if statement below an unneeeded space has been placed before the parentheses.

When Check is pressed, it reports that there is Whitespace before the “(“.

Without fixing this, after flashing to the microbit, it reports a line 5 error.

Press the tidy button to remove the extra whitespace.

from microbit import *

if button_a.is_presed ():
    display.scroll('A')

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6.2. Whitespace in parentheses: Error

In the if statement below an unneeeded space has been placed in the parentheses.

When Check is pressed, it reports that there is Whitespace after the “(“.

Without fixing this, after flashing to the microbit, it reports a line 4 error.

Press the tidy button to remove the extra whitespace.

from microbit import *

if button_a.is_presed( ):
    display.scroll('A')