🔒 indentation error

[paper forge]

hi guys. i am struggling to indent the print line in my command window in the flask shell please let me know what i might be doing wrong ">>> from sqlalchemy import text

with db.engine.connect() as connection:
... result = connection.execute(text("SELECT 1"))
... print(result.scalar()) "

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@paper forge

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[tough blade]

The >>> and ... suggest you're in repl. If you want to return to no-indent level, you gotta hit enter twice, to exit the multiline continuation mode (which ... means)

!repl

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Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL)

A REPL is an interactive shell where you can execute individual lines of code one at a time, like so:

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>>> x + 2
7
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...
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[tough blade]

>>> if True: # starting a block                 
...   a=1 # <- the prompt at the beginning of thd line changes and i gotta put indented lines here
... b=1 # if i write something without the indent...
  File "<stdin>", line 5
    b=1 # if i write something without the indent...
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
>>> # to do it properly, you gotta hit enter twice to exit the '...'
>>> if True:
...   a=1
...
>>> b=1 # after hitting enter twice, we get back to normal mode and can run code without error
>>>

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