how to "normalize" indentation sources

[John Machin]

On 25/05/2006 12:00 PM, AndyL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a lot of sources with mixed indentation typically 2 or 4 or 8 
> spaces. Is there any way to automatically convert them in let's say 4 
> spaces?
> 

Yup. Right under your nose:

C:\junk>\python24\tools\scripts\reindent.py --help
reindent [-d][-r][-v] [ path ... ]

-d (--dryrun)  Dry run.  Analyze, but don't make any changes to, files.
-r (--recurse) Recurse.  Search for all .py files in subdirectories too.
-v (--verbose) Verbose.  Print informative msgs; else no output.
-h (--help)    Help.     Print this usage information and exit.

Change Python (.py) files to use 4-space indents and no hard tab characters.
Also trim excess spaces and tabs from ends of lines, and remove empty lines
at the end of files.  Also ensure the last line ends with a newline.
[snip]