Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > 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
Awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
