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Posted January 17, 2019 1:31pm by

Indentation in Python - best practices

Hello,

I'm getting a lot of errors related to indentation in Python.

I know, it's recommended to use spaces, instead of tabs, but what are other best practices? What if you have wrong code, how to fix indentation - any tool?

One indent should be 2 spaces?

January 18, 2019 5:08am

Python 3 won't allow you to mix tabs and spaces for indentation. And 4 spaces is the recommended indentation level. This can be automatically applied on the bottom right hand corner just above the console space.

1 Answer

January 17, 2019 1:59pm

Have you checked out the PEP8 Docs? Also, articles discussing PEP8 like Beautiful PEP8 Python Code.

Some IDEs like PyCharm have pep8 helpers - not sure about others but probably easy enough to find with a little searching.

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