python-shell on linux system indentation error [duplicate]

Question

I am a newbie in python and using the python shell through a linux system. I enter the python shell by typing "python" at the command line. When i try to execute a for-loop from the python shell, the shell does not allow me to further continue with indentation and sends File "", line 2 error. Please check the code below;

ash-4.1$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, May 22 2015, 08:34:51)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-15)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> word=("cheese")
>>> word
'cheese'
>>> for character in word:
... print(character)
  File "<stdin>", line 2
    print(character)
        ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
>>>

Also the version installed on this linux system is 2.6. Can you please help me how to work through this?

Answer 1

You need to indent your loop body

word=("cheese") 
for character in word:
       print(character) 

Answer 2

Ohk I got it. preceded the second line by 4 spaces and then gave the statements of the block code. followed the same for the next line and then a blank line at the last. Thanks Anomitra, i got it just now.!!! Cheers.!! I am posting the block code for others who could get confused like me..

>>> c=5
>>> while c != 0:
...(space)(space)(space)(space)print(c)
...(space)(space)(space)(space)c -= 1
...(blank line)
5
4
3
2
1
>>>