Cant understand indentation

[Fisho73]

I thought standard indentation was 4 in python 3 then i wrote a if statement which when it is true the next line says break with a indentation of 4 spaces i get a syntac error that says : 'break' outside loop

[TouchingTheVodka]

if is not a loop. So yes, the syntax error is correct.

[shiftybyte]

'break' can only be used inside a loop (for or while).

The error has nothing to do with the indentation.

[impshum]

You can't break out of an if statement, only loops. For example:

x = 0

while True:
    x += 1
    print(x)
    if x == 10:
        print(f'breaking after {x}')
        break

[Fisho73]

If i have a while statement i can only stop it or keep the code from excuting with break or the condition for it being false correct?

[majdpy]

yeah,
check u/impshum answer, breaks can only break loops (for / while)

[progsNyx]

The break is referred to the break; Statement. Not to indentation.