Unremovable Collatz Conjecture indentation error

Exercism
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My solution runs for all test cases on my IDE but runs on Exercism editor until I cancel it when it gives "indent error on line 2. I use a while loop but that’s not the problem. Out of ideas! Help!

2

Can you provide your code?

3

It sounds like you’re introducing invalid indentation when copying from your IDE to the website.

4

I restarted Exercism and fopied the program in by hand. Same problem same error message

5

def steps(number):
if number < 1:
raise ValueError(“only positive integers are allowed”)
if type(number) != int:
raise TypeError(“only positive integers are allowed”)
count = 0
while number != 1:
if number%2 == 0:
number = int(number/2)
else:
number = int(3 * number + 1)
count += 1

return count
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def steps(number):
if number < 1:
raise ValueError(“only positive integers are allowed”)
if type(number) != int:
raise TypeError(“only positive integers are allowed”)
count = 0
while number != 1:
if number%2 == 0:
number = int(number/2)
else:
number = int(3 * number + 1)
count += 1
return count

7

sorry…
i lose the indents when I copy and paste here. But they are correct in the actual program

8

That’s a problem if we’re trying to troubleshoot an indentation error. Try using a code block and pasting your code into there. Type ``` to open the block, hit enter, paste your code in, hit enter, and type those three backticks again to complete the code block.

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The code as sent to my (text only, not html) seems to have been preserved, and is presented as this:

def steps(number):
    if number < 1:
        raise ValueError("only positive integers are allowed")
    if type(number) != int:
        raise TypeError("only positive integers are allowed")
    count = 0
    while number != 1:
        if number%2 == 0:
            number = int(number/2)
        else:
            number = int(3 * number + 1)
        count += 1

    return count

Hopefully that helps to clarify intention, even though the platform itself does not (necessarily) present what was intended.


```python
# Your code here
```

Note: This might be the wrong code, as there seems to be two messages that present similar but different code.

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If that’s the code being run, the indents seem fine. I guess what may be happening is Exercism is showing you the results from a previous run. Was line 2 originally not indented correctly? Perhaps you fixed that, reran the tests, but canceled the run before there was anything new to report.

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After many hours of frustration I found the test required ‘Only…’ wheras I had ‘only…’
Sorry to have bothered y’all