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

[Ramchandra Apte]

On Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:13:23 UTC+5:30, Alex  wrote:
> Ramchandra Apte wrote:
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> > On Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:03:52 UTC+5:30, Alex  wrote:
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> > > I'm new to Python and have been using IDLE 3.2.3 to experiment with
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> > > code as I learn. Despite being configured to use a 4 space
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> > > width, sometimes IDLE's "smart" indentation insists upon using
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> > > width-8
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> > > tabs.
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> > > From what I've been able to find on Google, this is due to a
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> > > shortcoming in Tk. While it's not that big a deal in the grand
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> > > of things, I think it looks like poop, and I'd like to change IDLE
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> > > use 4-space indentation instead of tabs for all indentation levels.
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> > > Is there any way for me to achieve what I want in IDLE, or do I
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> > > start up my full-blown IDE if I want consistent 4-space indentation?
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> > > Alex
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> > I think an IDE is better than IDLE. Try NINJA IDE.
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> > http://ninja-ide.org
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> Agreed. I like PyDev in Eclipse, but sometimes I just want to try out
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> something quick in the interpreter, to ensure I understand it or do a
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> quick experiment. Since indentation is syntactically significant in
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> cut-and-pasteable, and Pythonic code is more important than a cosmetic
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> feature, but less important than true bugs.

Agree.