Highlight/ select the lines you want indented, then press TAB as often as needed until they reach the proper indent level. You can remove spaces with SHIFT TAB. You can also use CTRL+ALT+I to auto-indent the selection.
Code → Reformat Code… (default Ctrl + Alt + L) for the whole file or Code → Auto-Indent Lines (default Ctrl + Alt + I) for the current line or selection. You can customise the settings for how code is auto-formatted under File → Settings → Editor → Code Style. To ensure comments are also indented to the same level as the code, you can simply do as follows:
Open Tools -> Options -> Keymap, then look for the action called “Re-indent current line or selection” and set whatever shortcut you want.
There are, in fact, multiple things you need to know about indentation in Python: Python really cares about indention. In other languages, indention is not necessary but only serves to improve the readability. In Python, indentation is necessary and replaces the keywords begin / end or { } of other languages. This is verified before the execution of the … Read more
See Soft Tabs and Tab Length under Settings > Editor Settings. To toggle indentation modes quickly you can use Ctrl-Shift-P and search for Editor: Toggle Soft Tabs
In version 7.2.2, the Tab Settings are under:
Atom has a built-in tool for this Activate the command palette (ShiftCmdP on Mac, CtrlShiftP on Windows/Linux) and search for “convert space” or “convert tab”. You should find these three commands are available: Whitespace: Convert Spaces to Tabs Whitespace: Convert Tabs to Spaces Whitespace: Convert All Tabs to Spaces Convert Tabs vs. Convert All Tabs … Read more
It’s because you have: without a matching except block after the try: block. Every try must have at least one matching except. See the Errors and Exceptions section of the Python tutorial.
I played a bit with python in Notepad++ and I had a problem with the tab. Since in python your indentation is really important but notepad ++ put space instead of a tab. So to change to tab you need to go in notepad ++ Menu Settings > Preferences… then select Tab Settings Then select python in the Tab Settings box and uncheck Use … Read more
You cannot mix tabs and spaces, according the PEP8 styleguide: Spaces are the preferred indentation method. Tabs should be used solely to remain consistent with code that is already indented with tabs. Python 3 disallows mixing the use of tabs and spaces for indentation. Python 2 code indented with a mixture of tabs and spaces should … Read more