Bug: My code changes when cloning

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After I cloning my own repo calculatorMax to my computer, I realized that the main.py is different with the one on GitHub. Something similar might have happend a million times before, but this one actually prevented Python from running my code.
It's likely because this:

...
def func():
    ...
<main code>
if easygui.ynbox('Do you really want to exit?'):
    sys.exit()

turned into this:

def func():
    ...
    <main code>#There's 4 spaces in the front of all of the lines of the main code, so Python thinks this is part of func() and never runs this
if easygui.ynbox('Do you really want to exit?'):
    sys.exit()

Can anybody help?

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[6871296]

I don't know which thing is wrong, so I published this here.

[adnanisagoodboy]

@6871296 are you using something like prettier >? or any formatter? check that out

[Sunil56224972]

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After I cloning my own repo calculatorMax to my computer, I realized that the main.py is different with the one on GitHub. Something similar might have happend a million times before, but this one actually prevented Python from running my code. It's likely because this:

...
def func():
    ...
<main code>
if easygui.ynbox('Do you really want to exit?'):
    sys.exit()

turned into this:

def func():
    ...
    <main code>#There's 4 spaces in the front of all of the lines of the main code, so Python thinks this is part of func() and never runs this
if easygui.ynbox('Do you really want to exit?'):
    sys.exit()

Can anybody help?

Hey! @6871296
This is a classic line ending / whitespace corruption issue that Git can cause during cloning on Windows. Here's exactly what happened and how to fix it:
What caused this
Git has a setting called autocrlf that automatically converts line endings when cloning. On Windows, this can sometimes mess up indentation in Python files — adding or shifting spaces in a way that breaks your code structure.
Immediate fix — manually dedent the code:
Open main.py in VS Code and:

Select all the misindented main code lines
Press Shift + Tab to remove one level of indentation (4 spaces)
Make sure your main code is at 0 indentation (not inside any function)
Should look like:

pythondef func():
...

main code starts here at column 0

if easygui.ynbox('Do you really want to exit?'):
sys.exit()
Permanent fix — stop Git from doing this again:
Run this in your terminal:
bashgit config --global core.autocrlf false
Then re-clone the repo fresh:
bashgit clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/calculatorMax.git
Verify the file isn't corrupted on GitHub:
Go to your repo on GitHub → click main.py → click Raw button → check if indentation looks correct there. If it looks wrong on GitHub too, the issue was in the original commit.
Fix and push corrected file:
bashgit add main.py
git commit -m "fix: correct indentation in main code"
git push
The core.autocrlf false setting is the key — it stops Git from touching your whitespace during clone/push. 🙌