Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] replace tabs with spaces of Python code

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Pratt wrote:

>  
>
> > there are many Python codes in tools/ that mix tab and space 
> > for indentation, which might introduce some silly and hidden 
> > bugs. this is a serious problem and must be avoid at all cost.
> > here is a patch (against cset 1.1452) to replace all tabs with spaces.
> > all the changes are pretty trivial, and i double checked everything.
> > please take a look to see if all the modifies are OK.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx>
> >    
> Are you sure python interprets a tab as a 4 spaces? I thought it
> interpretted it as 8?
>  
It's not that simple.  Check out 2.1.8 of the python language spec.

http://docs.python.org/ref/indentation.html

Tabs are expanded to the next 8 character column.  The following script 
expands tabs as described in the python standard.  I don't know how to 
do tab expansion in sed.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori

> Hmm, there are a whole bunch of outstanding xend patches this this is
> going to create merge hell for, so I'm not sure we want to apply this
> straight away.
>
> Could you just post the script you used, or did you just do the obvious
> sed invocation?
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
>  
>
> > any idea? if nobody complains, i would prepare a patch like 
> > this for -testing tree.
> > $ diffstat removetab.patch 
> > logging/logging-0.4.9.2/test/mymodule.py |    6 +-
> > xen/sv/CreateDomain.py                   |   34 ++++++++--------
> > xen/sv/Daemon.py                         |    2 
> > xen/sv/DomInfo.py                        |   55 
> > ++++++++++++--------------
> > xen/sv/DomList.py                        |   16 +++----
> > xen/sv/GenTabbed.py                      |    6 +-
> > xen/sv/HTMLBase.py                       |    4 -
> > xen/sv/Main.py                           |   12 ++---
> > xen/sv/NodeInfo.py                       |   16 +++----
> > xen/sv/Wizard.py                         |   64 
> > +++++++++++++++----------------
> > xen/sv/util.py                           |    6 +-
> > xen/web/SrvBase.py                       |    6 +-
> > xen/web/SrvDir.py                        |    2 
> > xen/xend/EventServer.py                  |   24 +++++------
> > xen/xend/PrettyPrint.py                  |    6 +-
> > xen/xend/XendClient.py                   |    6 +-
> > xen/xend/XendDomain.py                   |    4 -
> > xen/xend/encode.py                       |    2 
> > xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py             |    6 +-
> > xen/xend/sxp.py                          |    2 
> > xen/xm/main.py                           |   12 ++---
> > 21 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > regards,
> > aq
> >
> >    
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tab2space.py
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