PYTHON INDENT BLOCK HOW TO

The Class and Path browsers now use a new version of the pyclbr.py module, which is used to parse a Python file. It is now possible to set the indent width and toggle between the use of tabs in the indentation.

PYTHON INDENT BLOCK HOW TO

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