On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Jeremy Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am in the process of teaching myself python 3 and I have been able
> to change vi so that tabs are 4 characters instead of 8. What I'm
> having a hard time with is figuring out how to change the output from
> a print() statement, within python script to a bash terminal screen,
> so that a '\t' character outputs 4 characters instead of 8.
>
> I've tried looking at the documentation for python to see if there is
> a way of modifying how the print() statement works, but I haven't
> found anything that route. I've also tried to find a way of possibly
> adding something to the .bashrc or .bash_profile files to change this,
> but so far no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is determined by the terminal renderer. The default is 8. The
easiest way is to configure your editor for "soft tabs," where it uses
spaces instead of tabs, but then treats a set of four spaces like a
tab character. So:
^W
= (nil)
I didn't think Python supported tabs; the few times I've dabbled in
it, it's always screamed bloody murder if I use tabs. I'm a Ruby guy
myself, so I can't help you much beyond knowing what editors do and
don't. Maybe some real Python guys will be of more help than my
simple "it's a problem with your editor" statement?
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