Hi Claudio
Just to note there are other python formatters available,  for 
instance yapf https://pypi.org/project/yapf/ which you mind find of value. 
It can be used in BBedit in a similar way

On Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 1:22:00 PM UTC-5 Claudio Pedrazzi wrote:

> Hi Jean
> I sincerely thank you for your rather comprehensive and instructive 
> reply.  I installed black (it also installs with *pip3 install black*) 
> and tried it on my code.  It does much more than just fix the indentation! 
> I don't always agree with the changes.  Also I do not like that it 
> overwrites the original source file.  However, this has nothing to do with 
> my question, which I consider adequately answered.  I now understand that 
> indenting Python code is not as "straightforward" as I thought.
> Thanks again for the clarification
> Claudio Pedrazzi
>
> Il giorno mer 27 dic 2023 alle ore 16:23 jj <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Claudio,
>>
>> You should never infer that something cannot be done with BBEdit.
>> BBEdit has an incredibly useful toolset for editing text and code.
>> So there is certainly a way with regular expressions to do what you want. 
>>
>> But ... reformatting Python code is not as simple as it sounds because of 
>> indentation,
>> line width wrapping, etc.
>>
>> The recommended *Black* Python formatter is a tool that addresses those 
>> difficulties.
>>
>> You can install it on you system with *Homebrew* <https://brew.sh>.
>>
>> Once *Homebrew *is installed, use it in the terminal to install *black*:
>>
>>     % brew install black
>>     
>> Once *black *is installed, you can use it from the terminal:
>>     
>>     % black /path/to/your/python_file.py
>>   
>> Or you can also create a BBEdit Text Filter that will allow you to use it 
>> from BBEdit.
>>
>> Create a file with this content at this location ~/Library/Application 
>> Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/black.sh.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env zsh
>>
>> black -q -
>>
>> Give the *black.sh* shell script the executable permissions.
>> You should now have in BBEdit a menu *Text > Apply Text Filter > black* you 
>> can use to reformat you python files.
>>
>> If you need help on *black*, in the terminal type:
>>
>>     % black --help
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Jean Jourdain
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 2:30:07 PM UTC+1 Claudio Pedrazzi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jean
>>>
>>> thanks a lot for the reply!
>>>
>>> So can I infer from your answer, that BBEdit is not able to do the 
>>> requested task, even in the paid (pro) version?
>>>
>>> Claudio
>>>
>>> Il giorno lunedì 25 dicembre 2023 alle 21:09:05 UTC+1 jj ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Claudio,
>>>>
>>>> You should take a look at :
>>>> https://github.com/psf/black
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>> Jean Jourdain
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, December 25, 2023 at 6:05:52 PM UTC+1 Claudio Pedrazzi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> this is my first post here and I hope I am in the right place. I have 
>>>>> a python code of about a thousand lines, contained in a .py file, and I 
>>>>> would like to fix, possibly automatically, the indentation (i.e. at the 
>>>>> first level four characters, then eight, and so on, as the standard 
>>>>> requires).
>>>>> To explain myself better, the code is correct and it works, but some 
>>>>> parts are indented 2 characters, some 3, and some 4. I am trying to do 
>>>>> this 
>>>>> with BBedit, of which I have the pro version (the paid one). I don't know 
>>>>> if this is the right way but I use Markup > Utilities > Format and I 
>>>>> always 
>>>>> get an error: Unespected EOF; Document ended in the middle of a tag. 
>>>>> Maybe 
>>>>> I'm not using the right function? Are there ways to get this result?  
>>>>> If not, are there other free tools to perform this task?
>>>>> I have to say that I am not very proficient with scripting and such 
>>>>> extensions, I would like a simple "menu based" solution, of course if it 
>>>>> exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lots in advance
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Claudio
>>>>>
>>>>>
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