title: python-shell on linux system indentation error
body: <p>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;</p>
  
  <pre><code>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.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; word=("cheese")
  &gt;&gt;&gt; word
  'cheese'
  &gt;&gt;&gt; for character in word:
  ... print(character)
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 2
      print(character)
          ^
  IndentationError: expected an indented block
  &gt;&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also the version installed on this linux system is 2.6. Can you please help me how to work through this?</p>