Sometimes the python shell cannot recognize the presence of an attribute.

[Justin Park]

Sometimes when I am working on an already generated package,
the python shell cannot perceive the presence of an attribute that I
implemented on top of what was there.

Is there a way to have it perceive newly created attributes?

Thanks,
Justin.

[Justin Park]

Sorry, my mistake.

The real problem is this.
When I started working on the package, somehow all of indentations were
made by space-bars instead of using tabs.
But when I am implementing my own on top of it, I still use tabs to make
indentations.

This is causing a problem.
I have to either conform to their style and change all my tabs to the
space-bars making up those spaces,
or change all indentations in the previous implementations by tabs.
But both the previous implementations and what I am going to do are also
so large that either way is not going to be efficient.

What can I do in order to resolve this issue?

Thanks,
Justin.

[Steve Holden]

Justin Park wrote:
> Sorry, my mistake.
>
> The real problem is this.
> When I started working on the package, somehow all of indentations were
> made by space-bars instead of using tabs.
> But when I am implementing my own on top of it, I still use tabs to make
> indentations.
>
> This is causing a problem.
> I have to either conform to their style and change all my tabs to the
> space-bars making up those spaces,
> or change all indentations in the previous implementations by tabs.
> But both the previous implementations and what I am going to do are also
> so large that either way is not going to be efficient.
>
> What can I do in order to resolve this issue?
>

You might try Googling for "expandtabs". This isn't a new problem,
though I agree it can be very vexing when it's new to you ;-)

regards
Steve
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[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1341.1269989...@python.org>,

Justin Park <h...@rice.edu> wrote:
>
>The real problem is this. When I started working on the package,
>somehow all of indentations were made by space-bars instead of using
>tabs. But when I am implementing my own on top of it, I still use tabs
>to make indentations.

Stop using TAB. Allowing TAB was a mistake. Spaces are the One True
Way when formatting Python code.
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[Simon Brunning]

2010/4/12 Ricardo Aráoz <rica...@gmail.com>:
> Because .....

... Guido says so: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

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