On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:04, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Uwe Grauer wrote: > > Even though i don't care, i have a question about this decision: > > Is there a utility which is able to convert a python source file to > > tabs > > only indentation? > > I doubt it, since spaces by their very nature are ambiguous. If a > line is indented 12 spaces, how many tabs should it be converted to? > > Also, you could indent one file (or even one function of a file) > with 2 spaces per indent, and another with 3, and another with 4. > > However, if you know that there are 'n' spaces per indent level, and > that this never changes, the code would be pretty straightforward: > just grab the leading spaces, and replace them with the corresponding > tabs. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com Wing makes an effort to convert. -- John Fabiani
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