IndentationError: unexpected indent error

Question

I am new to Python and am getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/usr/local/bin/scrapy\", line 4, in 
    execute()
           


        

Answer 1

The error is pretty straightforward - the line starting with check_exists_sql isn't indented properly. From the context of your code, I'd indent it and the following lines to match the line before it:

   #open db connection
   db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","str0ng","TESTDB")

   #prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
   cursor = db.cursor()

   #see if any links in the DB match the crawled link
   check_exists_sql = "SELECT * FROM LINKS WHERE link = '%s' LIMIT 1" % item['link']

   cursor.execute(check_exists_sql)

And keep indenting it until the for loop ends (all the way through to and including items.append(item).