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Hi all, I am editing a program in Notepadd++ and then mailing myself the .py file. Once open in Pythonista I seem to have issues with the indentation. In the setting i turn on soft indentiation and set tab equal to 4 spaces. Then I try to convert the indentiation, but I get the error shown below the question. When I try to run the program i get an indentation error message in a place where I wold not really expect one.

Does anyone have any tips for how to solve this, but more importantly how to avoid these types of issues.
Normally I would be happy to write the code directly to pythonista, but that is not as feasible to do when there are collaborators...

Thanks

Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mobile/Applications/E4A601AC-A113-4B37-96DF-206D1D61BB3A/Pythonista.app/pythonista_reindent.py", line 111, in main
    check(arg)
  File "/var/mobile/Applications/E4A601AC-A113-4B37-96DF-206D1D61BB3A/Pythonista.app/pythonista_reindent.py", line 157, in check
    if r.run():

i'm a newbie and run into this all the time, it is kind of frustrating when you are learning and it makes no sense because to me, it looks correct.

There is an option in the Action Menu of the current Pythonista called Convert Indentation that can fix this issue. In Pythonista Settings, you can set tabs equal to 4 spaces and turn ON both Soft Tabs and Show Mixed Indentation. Then you can select Convert Indentation on the current script an it will do the right thing.

Notepad++

Settings -> Preferences -> Tab Settings -> Tab size: 4 and check "Replace by space"

thanks CCC and Brumm!