Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting?

[Alex]

Fabio Zadrozny wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Alex <foo at email.invalid> wrote:
> > Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> > 
> >> On Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:03:52 UTC+5:30, Alex  wrote:
> >> > I'm new to Python and have been using IDLE 3.2.3 to experiment
> with >> >
> >> > code as I learn. Despite being configured to use a 4 space
> >> > indentation
> >> >
> >> > width, sometimes IDLE's "smart" indentation insists upon using
> >> > width-8
> >> >
> >> > tabs.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > From what I've been able to find on Google, this is due to a
> >> >
> >> > shortcoming in Tk. While it's not that big a deal in the grand
> >> > scheme
> >> >
> >> > of things, I think it looks like poop, and I'd like to change
> IDLE >> > to
> >> >
> >> > use 4-space indentation instead of tabs for all indentation
> levels.  >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Is there any way for me to achieve what I want in IDLE, or do I
> >> > have to
> >> >
> >> > start up my full-blown IDE if I want consistent 4-space
> indentation?  >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Alex
> > > 
> >> I think an IDE is better than IDLE. Try NINJA IDE.
> >> http://ninja-ide.org
> > 
> > Agreed. I like PyDev in Eclipse, but sometimes I just want to try
> > out something quick in the interpreter, to ensure I understand it
> > or do a quick experiment. Since indentation is syntactically
> > significant in Python, I think fixing the interpreter to produce
> > good, readable, cut-and-pasteable, and Pythonic code is more
> > important than a cosmetic feature, but less important than true
> > bugs.
> > --
> 
> 
> Actually, if you're in PyDev/Eclipse already, you can just use the
> interactive shell that PyDev provides:
> http://pydev.org/manual_adv_interactive_console.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fabio

Awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.