space/tab conversion utility?
Brian van den Broek
bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca
Wed Jul 28 19:36:43 EDT 2004
Grant Edwards said unto the world upon 28/07/2004 19:15:
> In article <mailman.898.1091055734.5135.python-list at python.org>, Brian van den Broek wrote:
>
>
>>>"unexpand" will do dumb conversion, but what's required is
>>>something that understands Python block syntax. Something
>>>similar to C's "indent" program.
>>
>>OK, sorry. I'm still pretty new to Python and programming in general. But
>>I would have thought that the recipe I pointed to could be used as the
>>basis of a script that would uniformly replace all leading tabs with a set
>>number of spaces, thus preserving relative indents. (On the assumption
>>that the code being transformed is all tabs.)
>
>
> 1) The conversion I need to do is the other direction spaces->tabs.
Doh! :-[
> 2) Simply converting all leading spaces to the right number of
> tabs (unexpand knows how to do that) isn't correct. Only
> the spaces that are block-indent spaces should be converted.
<Helpful explanation snipped>
>>If there's a subtlety that is blowing past me in my
>>newbieness, enlightenment would be appreciated. On the other
>>hand, if you'd like to see the code, I'd be happy to share.
>
>
> The problem is that sometimes lines contain leading spaces that
> shouldn't be converted to tabs.
Hi Grant,
thanks for the explanation. Since you probably have better things to do
than play "spot the newbie's confusion" and I am fresh out of feet to
stick in my mouth, let's leave it there ;-)
Best,
Brian vdB
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