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Saied_Delshad
Saied_Delshad

Reputation: 301

indent python file (with pydev) in eclipse

I'm a newbie in eclipse. I want to indent all the lines of my code and formatting the open file by pressing a shortcut or something like that... I know the CTRL+SHIFT+F (as it actually doesn't work in pydev!!) I've been searching for hours with no success. Is there any way to do that in eclipse. kind of like CTRL+K,D in visual studio, which formats and indents all the source code lines automatically?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 30001

Answers (10)

InvisibleWolf
InvisibleWolf

Reputation: 1017

Like earlier said python requires to indent your code, so for other things like: space between variables passed as arguments to methods, etc., one can use ctrl+shift+f to format the code. This what is used for java, I tried for pydev and does some formatting.

Upvotes: 0

fivef
fivef

Reputation: 2559

It is much easier:

  1. Select multiple lines
  2. Press Tab to indent (move right), Shift + Tab to unindent (move left) all selected lines.

Upvotes: 14

someuser
someuser

Reputation: 2309

It seems source formatting is still not available in PyDev.

For one off instances I found this web app does the job nicely.

http://pythoniter.appspot.com/

Upvotes: 1

reggie
reggie

Reputation: 181

One can also select the lines, right click, then shift right / shift left

Upvotes: 1

rakslice
rakslice

Reputation: 8985

Indentation is syntactically significant; consider the difference between 

for i in range(5):
    print i
print "done"

and 

for i in range(5):
    print i
    print "done"

However, it certainly makes sense for the IDE to be able to normalize the existing indentation (e.g. apply a consistent number of spaces/tabs at each level).

Currently PyDev does not support such a feature; Pydev author Fabioz at one point expressed interest in adding it in the future and indicated that for now you can use the supplied reindent.py script to do it.

Upvotes: 4

jjisnow
jjisnow

Reputation: 1506

Obviously this is only for Pydev, but I've worked out that you can get the very useful functions "Shift Right" and "Shift Left" (mapped by default to CTRL + ALT + . and CTRL + ALT + ,) to become useful by changing their keybindings to "Pydev Editor Scope" from "Pydev View". This effectively indents/dedents all lines that you've selected as much as you'd like

Upvotes: 2

Demyn
Demyn

Reputation: 1240

If you want to change from 2 space to 4 space indentation (for instance), use "Source->Convert space to tab" with 2 spaces, then "Soruce->Convert tab to space" with 4 spaces.

Upvotes: 25

wagnerpeer
wagnerpeer

Reputation: 947

Although auto-indentation is not a feature of PyDev because of the language design you should be able to indent with a simple tab. Just select the lines you want to indent and press Tab. If you want to unindent lines you have to press Shift+Tab. Thats all.

Upvotes: 16

jonathan.hepp
jonathan.hepp

Reputation: 1653

I think that what you're looking for is some kind of shortcut in Eclipse/PyDev so that the selected code can be idented all at once. Just like when you create a new "if" or a "for" loop above a block of code and then need to rearrange the identation. The IDLE Editor has the "Ctrl + ]" shortcut that works exactly that way. It seems that the PyDev in Eclipse doesnt have something like that as far as I know.

Upvotes: 1

g.d.d.c
g.d.d.c

Reputation: 48038

I ... don't think this question makes sense. Indentation is syntax in Python. It doesn't make sense to have your IDE auto-indent your code. If it's not indented properly already, it doesn't work, and the IDE can't know where your indentation blocks begin and end. Take, for example:

# Valid Code
for i in range(10):
  b = i

for j in range(b):
  c = j

# Also Valid Code.
for i in range(10):
  b = i

  for j in range(b):
    c = j

There's no possible way that the IDE can know which of those is the correct version, or what your intent is. If you're going to write Python code, you're going to have to learn to manage the indentation. There's no way to avoid it, and expecting the IDE to magically clean it up and still get the desired result out of it is pretty much impossible.

Further example:

# Valid Code.
outputData = []

for i in range(100):
  outputData.append(str(i))

print ''.join(outputData)

# Again, also valid code, wildly different behavior.
outputData = []

for i in range(100):
  outputData.append(str(i))

  print ''.join(outputData)

The first will produce a list of strings, then print the joined result to the console 1 time. The second will still produce a list of strings, but prints the cumulative joined result for each iteration of the loop - 100 print statements. The two are both 100% syntactically correct. There's no problem with them. Either of them could be what the developer wanted. An IDE can't "know" which is correct. It could, very easily incorrectly change the first version to the second version. Because the Language uses Indentation as Syntax, there is no way to configure an IDE to perform this kind of formatting for you.

Upvotes: 20

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