pycharm convert tabs to spaces automatically

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I am using pycharm IDE for python development it works perfectly fine for django code so suspected that converting tabs to spaces is default behaviour  however in python IDE is giving errors everywhere because it can t convert tabs to spaces automatically is there a way to achieve this

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PyCharm 2019 1  If you want to change the general settings   Open preferences  in macOS    or in Windows Linux Ctrl   Alt   S   Go to Editor -  Code Style -  Python  and if you want to follow PEP-8  choose Tab size  4  Indent  4  and Continuation indent  8 as shown below     Apply the changes  and click on OK   If you want to apply the changes just to the current file  Option 1  You can choose in the navigation bar  Edit -  Convert Indent -  To Spaces   see image below     Option 2  You can execute  To Spaces  action by running the Find Action shortcut    A on macOS or ctrl A on Windows Linux  Then type  To Spaces   and run the action as shown in the image below

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This only converts the tabs without changing anything else   Edit - gt  Convert Indents - gt  To Spaces

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For me it was having a file called    editorconfig that was overriding my tab settings  I removed that  surely that will bite me again someday  but it fixed my pycharm issue

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For selections  you can also convert the selection using the  To spaces  function  I usually just use it via the ctrl-shift-A then find  To Spaces  from there

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ctr alt shift L -   reformat whole file

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ctrl   shift   A    open pop window to select options  select to spaces to convert all tabs as space  or to tab to convert all spaces as tab

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Change the code style to use spaces instead of tabs     Then select a folder you want to convert in the Project View and use Code   Reformat Code

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Just ot note  Pycharm s to spaces function only works on indent tabs at the beginning of a line  not interstitial tabs within a line of text  for example  when you are trying to format columns in monospaced text

[python] pycharm convert tabs to spaces automatically

PyCharm 2019.1

If you want to change the general settings:

If you want to apply the changes just to the current file

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