On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Trevor Wennblom <trevor@well.com> wrote:
... given that python has syntactically significant whitespace, i also try to maintain the convention of indentation with four-spaces. i've noticed this isn't consistent within the codebase, but does seem to be the preferred style such as in `lib/galaxy/datatypes/`.
python comes packaged with the script `reindent.py`:
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this is recommended practice per PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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would anyone be opposed to me fixing up the current codebase to adhere to this? running `reindent.py` on the files is easy enough, i'm willing to step through the files (`opendiff` / `FileMerge.app`) and verify no unlikely syntactic changes have occurred. i can also deliver changes in gradual "chunked" pull requests to ease current developers getting possibly bit by merge issues.
+1 on correcting any tabs to spaces in the Galaxy Python code. Doing this in chunked commits makes good sense too - although if you can get one of the Galaxy team to do this directly it might be quicker. Personally I'd like to go further and fix the non-PEP8 white space in most of the Galaxy Python code, e.g. function ( argument ) rather than: function(argument). Chatting to some of the Galaxy team at BOSC/ISMB 2011 there is some support for this internally. Again, there are automated tools to do this.
would anyone be willing to add the appropriate hooks to the central repository as well?
As long as there are no false positives identified during the initial tab/space conversion that seems sensible to prevent new tabs creeping in. But not essential. Peter