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If I open an existing project into PyCharm that used tabs instead of spaces can I format all of these files within PyCharm or do I need to manually update all of them?

Wunderbread
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  • I can't flag this as a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11816147/pycharm-convert-tabs-to-spaces-automatically because I still don't have the reputation but I believe this is what you're after. – goosfraba Oct 24 '17 at 18:03

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You can, assuming you have PyCharm set to automatically produce spaces instead of tabs (which is default, as far as I know).

In the menu:

Code -> Reformat Code with the top-level folder selected.

Spaceman1701
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Just treat it like a text file and replace the tabs:

with open('example.py') as infile:
    lines = infile.readlines()

lines = [line.replace('\t', '    ') for line in lines]

with open('example.py', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.writelines(lines)
Evan Nowak
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Try: Edit -> Convert Indents -> To Spaces

There are also some quick ways to do this from a UNIX shell.

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Andrew Schenck
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