Auto indents (was Re: How to set the history commands visible ?)
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Sep 13 18:56:23 EDT 2015
On 9/13/2015 1:15 PM, Glus Xof wrote:
> Is yet an automatic indentation system implemented ?
The Idle editor does pep8-aware 'smart indenting'. In the following,
'|' indicates the cursor position after <Enter> is pressed.
A ':' at the end of the line adds 1 indent -- unless there is an opener
that has not been closed. So what looks like a buggy indent usually
indicates a syntax error in the user code.
a = 3
|
if a == 3:
|pass
a = int(len({})
|) # pep 8 positioning
a = int(
|) # pep 8 positioning
if a = 3:
if b = 5:
|pass
if a == int(len({}):
| # unclosed int(
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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