Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Jorgen Grahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On 8 Jan 2007 23:57:29 -0800, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK, whilst colons are not sufficient to re-format a completely > > mis-indented file. I'm thinking that they are sufficient for > > reformatting most pasted code blocks when refactor

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On 8 Jan 2007 23:57:29 -0800, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, whilst colons are not sufficient to re-format a completely > mis-indented file. I'm thinking that they are sufficient for > reformatting most pasted code blocks when refactoring say? Let's put it this way: if the formatter can

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Paul McGuire
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If this is not > the case then the user should be asked wether to re-indent the copy > block to be equal to, or de-dented w.r.t. the paste line indent prior > to pasting. > How would the user know this? Every dedent is ambig

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Paddy
OK, whilst colons are not sufficient to re-format a completely mis-indented file. I'm thinking that they are sufficient for reformatting most pasted code blocks when refactoring say? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Won't the following rules work when pasting complete Python statements > and complete lines, after other lines in an editor: > > lets call the line after which the block is to be pasted the paste > line, and the original indent of the first line of the copied block to > be pasted the copy indent

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-08 Thread Paddy
Paul McGuire wrote: > "Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . > > It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites > > our FAQ ent

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-08 Thread Paddy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paddy wrote: > > I was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . > > It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites > > our FAQ entry > > http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#w

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-08 Thread Paul McGuire
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . > It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites > our FAQ entry > http://www.python.org/doc/fa

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paddy wrote: > I was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . > It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites > our FAQ entry > http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-colons-required-fo... > . > Ho

Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-08 Thread Paddy
I was just perusing a Wikipedia entry on the "off side rule" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . It says that the colon in Python is purely for readability, and cites our FAQ entry http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-colons-required-fo... . However, near the top of the A