Completely INNOCENT Indentation question

Cliff Wells clifford.wells at comcast.net
Wed Oct 13 09:47:32 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:32 -0700, valued customer wrote:
> Is there a way in python to indicate that you want your 
> "base level of indentation" to be four spaces instead of
> zero?
> 
> As far as I know now, the only way is by introducing some
> sort of language statement, for example:
> 
> if (1):
>     ### begin python script
>     foo = 1
>     bar = 2
>     print foo
>     print bar
> 
> Is there a way to accomplish this without introducing
> the "throwaway if statement" ??

I don't think so.  Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?
If you're unable to see the leftmost characters, just try dragging your
editor window a bit to the right <wink>

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>




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