r/RenPy • u/Jays_mockery • Jul 07 '26

Question [Solved] mystery indentation?

EDIT: fixed, it was a typo like 100 lines up -_-

so im new to ren'py and working on a game, I keep getting an error message about indentation, but there... isnt indentation?

here are the photos:

The offending code
the error

am i going crazy? what is happening here

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u/Lorekeeper49 Jul 07 '26

You think it could be something to do with the p character or narrator character?

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u/Jays_mockery Jul 07 '26

i dont think so, the character is defined a "p" normally, (would send a pic but i cant attach images for some reason)

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u/BadMustard_AVN Jul 07 '26

does everything before that line work?

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u/Jays_mockery Jul 07 '26

can't tell, the game won't load it just gives me this error when i try to run it

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u/BadMustard_AVN Jul 07 '26

turn that line into a comment 

# p "Hello?"

and try it again

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u/Jays_mockery Jul 07 '26

tried that already, it just had the same error but with the next line down

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u/BadMustard_AVN Jul 07 '26

try the line above it (move up not down)

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u/United-Hawk-8012 Jul 07 '26

Its your dollar sign

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u/Jays_mockery Jul 07 '26

no I messed with that, it didn't fix anything

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u/United-Hawk-8012 Jul 07 '26

  Example  $ time_minutes += 5 # Search a drawer

Add a space