In a message of Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:49:56 -0700, ryguy7272 writes: >I'm trying to copy some Python code from a PDF book that I'm reading. I want >to test out the code, and I can copy it, but when I paste it into the Shell, >everything is all screwed up because of the indentation. Every time I paste in >any kind of code, it seems like everything is immediately left-justified, and >then nothing works. > >Any idea how to make this work easily? Without re-typing hundreds of lines of >code... > >Thanks to all. >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
What I do is run my pdf file through pdftotext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext and get a text version of the file. If the file is large, sometimes I just save the code I want to convert as separate pdf files and then convert them. Then I paste from the result, not the pdf. You want to give the -layout and -nopgbrk options to pdftotext. It's not perfect, but saves a lot of work. Make sure your pdf is writing your python code in a fixed width font before you try this, or it will be hopeless. If your python code is being displayed in the book in a variable width font, you will first have to hack your pdf to stop doing this, and then run it through the tool. Write back if you need more help. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
