On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Alex <foo@email.invalid> wrote: > 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. > --
Actually, if you're in PyDev/Eclipse already, you can just use the interactive shell that PyDev provides: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_interactive_console.html Cheers, Fabio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
