David, Oh, the joys of open-source. Here's my solution for you: (1) load your file in your favorite editor (2) determine user-desired tab stop setting (3) convert all tabs to spaces in your editor (or search replace tabs with X-spaces) (4) save your file
One warning though, I have seen some interpreters crash when they encounter spaces over tabs. -- Jason On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:12 AM, David Hall <li...@cowsandmilk.net> wrote: > During my editing of dynoplot.py, I noticed that there were some > whitespace issues. Normally I consider whitespace a bikeshedding > topic, but in python, it is significant, so it matters. When tabs and > spaces are mixed, our own personal settings for how tabs are displayed > in an editor makes a huge difference in whether the script is > understandable. > > I checked out the git repo of pymol scripts ( > http://github.com/jlec/Pymol-script-repo/ ) and did some analysis > > First, these files switch between some lines where all indenting is > tabs to lines where all indenting is spaces: > Objects_and_Selections/color_objects.py has 8 tab lines and 34 space lines > ThirdParty_Scripts/WFMesh.py has 52 tab lines and 21 space lines > biochemical_scripts/pucker.py has 167 tab lines and 5 space lines > math_geo_cgo/modevectors.py has 160 tab lines and 2 space lines > structural_biology_scripts/DynoPlot.py has 82 tab lines and 27 space lines > structural_biology_scripts/Rotamers.py has 86 tab lines and 22 space lines > structural_biology_scripts/kabsch.py has 51 tab lines and 4 space lines > > Second, there are files where the indenting inside a line switches > back and forth (numbers are the counts of lines that have both tabs > and spaces in indenting): > Objects_and_Selections/color_objects.py: 19 > ThirdParty_Scripts/WFMesh.py: 29 > ThirdParty_Scripts/transform_odb.py: 6 > math_geo_cgo/modevectors.py: 12 > structural_biology_scripts/DynoPlot.py: 83 > structural_biology_scripts/Rotamers.py: 86 > structural_biology_scripts/kabsch.py: 1 > > I've tried using pindent.py ( > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py ) > and PythonTidy ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PythonTidy/ ) to > generally fix these, but they both run into problems. Is there a > general solution out in the python world to automatically fix this? I > don't care whether it produces tabs or spaces. I just want one or the > other. If someone points me to something, I'm more than willing to > run it on these scripts, push them back to github and copy them back > onto the wiki. > > -David > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrodinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
