Nate Lowrie wrote:
> On 6/26/07, Uwe Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ed Leafe wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:15 PM, johnf wrote:
>>>
>>>> Python does not care if tabs or spaces are used. But with respect to
>>>> committing to Dabo I would expect only one or the other be used.
>>>> Not both.
>>>> If memory serves a few months back you and Ed agreed on 'tabs' right?
>>> That was settled several years ago. Tabs work with all fonts,
>>> whereas spaces only work with non-proportional fonts.
>>>
>> 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?
>
> IDLE does it for you. Open the file, select all, then under the
> format menu select tabify region. There is also an untabify region.
>
> Another opition is to write your own python script. Here is a quick
> little script whipped up. It assumes you know the number of spaces in
> a tab and doesn't have error checking and so on.
>
> def tabify(self, inFile, SpacesInTab):
> file = open(inFile, 'r')
> outputBuffer = []
>
> for line in file:
> numSpaces = len(line) - len(line.lstrip())
> if line.find(" "*numSpaces) == 0: #Check to see
> if whitespace is
> spaces. If some tabs are included, leave alone
> line = "\t"*(numSpaces/SpacesInTab) + line.lstrip()
>
> outputBuffer.append(line)
>
> file.close()
> file = open(inFile, 'w')
> file.writelines(outputBuffer)
>
> cheers,
>
> Nate L.
>
If Dabo wants to use tabs for indentation we should add this script to Dabo.
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