Python error I'm doing completely right but i got an error

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I'm building a webcrawler in python. It is crawling an news site. but when i am getting this error:TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation. it is in line 28 in my script. I can't figure out how to solve it.

    import requests
    from lxml import html
    import time
    from colorama import *

    def crawl():
        URL = "http://www.svt.se/nyheter/"
        host = "http://www.svt.se"
        blankHTML = requests.get(URL)
        tree = html.fromstring(blankHTML.text)
        Nyheter = tree.xpath('//span[@class="nyh_teaser__heading-title"]/text()')
        beskrivning = tree.xpath('//span[@class="nyh_teaser__text"]/text()')
        link = tree.xpath('//a[@class="nyh_teaser__link"]/@href')
        link_list = []
        newsnumber = 0
        numbersOfNews = 0
        for numb in range(1,10):
            print(Fore.GREEN + "Titel: " + Nyheter[newsnumber])
            print(Fore.YELLOW + "Beskrivning: " + beskrivning[newsnumber])
            print(link[newsnumber])
            link_list.append(link)
            newsnumber += 1
        choice1 = input("<News> ").lower()
        while True:
            if choicel == 1:
                URL = host + link_list[0]
                blankHTMLS = requests.get(URL)
                treek = html.fromstring(blankHTMLS.text)
                wholeNew = treek.xpath('//div[@class="nyh_article__body]/p/text()')
                print(wholeNew)






    crawl()

I don't really understand how you mean could you try to explain it another way? — Hagge15, Apr 26 '16 at 16:55
You should set your editor to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. Most of them have a setting to do this. Which one do you use? — Igor, Apr 26 '16 at 16:59
Try viewing your white spaces and tabs as mentioned in [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10153998/sublime-text-2-view-whitespace-characters). — Igor, Apr 26 '16 at 17:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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Your error would be caused by mixing tabs and spaces for your indentation. They were lost when you pasted your code example here so I am unable to reproduce the issue. You can use either but you can't mix them in the same code block. You can try opening your python file with something like Notepad++ and enabling View > Show Symbol > Show White Spaces and TAB.

I also noticed some other errors that may trip you up. You have an infinite loop so your program will never finish. Also you create a variable called choice1 but later refer to it as choicel which will cause an error.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Apr 26 '16 at 17:08

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Ok i'll i i will download notepad ++ – Hagge15 Apr 26 '16 at 17:21
You don't have to. You can [view TAB and Space characters in Sublime](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10153998/sublime-text-2-view-whitespace-characters) as well. – Igor Apr 26 '16 at 17:22
I'm linux i can't download – Hagge15 Apr 26 '16 at 17:23
see my previous comment. – Igor Apr 26 '16 at 17:23
how? by the way i'm new to stackowerflow is there something to accept answers or something – Hagge15 Apr 26 '16 at 17:25
If you refresh the page, you will be able to see all the comments. Welcome to SO. – Igor Apr 26 '16 at 17:26

Python error I'm doing completely right but i got an error

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