Ramchandra Apte wrote: > On Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:03:52 UTC+5:30, Alex wrote: > > I'm new to Python and have been using IDLE 3.2.3 to experiment with > > > > code as I learn. Despite being configured to use a 4 space > > indentation > > > > width, sometimes IDLE's "smart" indentation insists upon using > > width-8 > > > > tabs. > > > > > > > > From what I've been able to find on Google, this is due to a > > > > shortcoming in Tk. While it's not that big a deal in the grand > > scheme > > > > of things, I think it looks like poop, and I'd like to change IDLE > > to > > > > use 4-space indentation instead of tabs for all indentation levels. > > > > > > > > Is there any way for me to achieve what I want in IDLE, or do I > > have to > > > > start up my full-blown IDE if I want consistent 4-space indentation? > > > > > > > > Alex > > I think an IDE is better than IDLE. Try NINJA IDE. > http://ninja-ide.org
Agreed. I like PyDev in Eclipse, but sometimes I just want to try out something quick in the interpreter, to ensure I understand it or do a quick experiment. Since indentation is syntactically significant in Python, I think fixing the interpreter to produce good, readable, cut-and-pasteable, and Pythonic code is more important than a cosmetic feature, but less important than true bugs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
