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turtles
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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:23 am Post subject: Editing python 2 files in Kate |
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Greetings all amateur hour question here for all you Python fans.
Every time I edit a python 2 file I seem to eventually mess it up due to white space and get | Code: | | IndentationError: unexpected indent |
Is there a slick way the Kate text editor can auto detect what the tab / whitespace indent char is in a file?
AS I am not the original author of these it is quite challenging to decipher what the little >> chars mean in Kate, then dig around in the Kate settings and set the tab = 8 spaces type thing.
I realize Python 2 expects 8 spaces per indent or one tab char, and python 3 needs a different setting just not sure how to optimize Kate for that?
Thanks in advance.
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Tatsh
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Editing python 2 files in Kate |
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| turtles wrote: | Greetings all amateur hour question here for all you Python fans.
Every time I edit a python 2 file I seem to eventually mess it up due to white space and get | Code: | | IndentationError: unexpected indent |
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I'm assuming this is in the stdout and it probably can be ignored.
| Quote: | | Is there a slick way the Kate text editor can auto detect what the tab / whitespace indent char is in a file? |
Kate does this as soon as you load the file, but with spaces it's not a guarantee. If it guesses wrong you need to set the value at the bottom right or . Most projects use Soft Tabs: 4, spaces only (this is also part of the PEP8 standard).
| Quote: | | AS I am not the original author of these it is quite challenging to decipher what the little >> chars mean in Kate, then dig around in the Kate settings and set the tab = 8 spaces type thing. |
I use Kate often and I'm not sure what you are referring to here. Are you sure your configuration is sane? You can reset the settings by deleting ~/.config/kate*rc
In Python, >> means bitwise shift right.
If you're looking at a bad Git merge, >>>>>>>>> marks where the unmergeable lines are.
| Quote: | | I realize Python 2 expects 8 spaces per indent or one tab char, and python 3 needs a different setting just not sure how to optimize Kate for that? |
Both versions of Python expect consistent indents (could be any amount or tabs) not an exact number of spaces. |
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