DetectTabs

Simple command line python script to detect TABs usage in a file, with option to replace the usage of TABS with spaces

Description

Main goal of this python script, when provided with a file, to analyze the content of the file and detect if TABs (tabulation) was used instead of spaces. For example: you provide the file "john_doe.txt" which is 10 lines long file and there is a TABs usage on line 3 and 5. The script have two options: check and replace.

• the 'check' argument scan the files and report the lines and the content on the line where is used TABs instead of spaces. There is also check-short which option which print only the line number with less details
• The 'replace' argument opens and scan the file for TABs usage, if found any then generate a new file called <"filename_tabs_removed"> where TABs usage is replace with spaces

How to execute and example usages:

Usage with check argument

Provided check argument which return all lines of the provided file and if there is any TABs usage on certain line, the TABs usage is reported detailed

python3 detect_tabs.py <filename> check

Usage with check-short argument

Provided check-short argument which return all lines of the provided file if any TABs usage is encountered, but it display only the line number without the content of the line.

python3 detect_tabs.py <filename> check-short

Usage with replace argument (not a python file)

Provided replace argument for file different than python. It goes trough the file and if there is any TABs usages, they are replaced with spaces (1 tab = 8 spaces). The new content is outputed to "<filename_tabs_removed>"file

python3 detect_tabs.py <filename> replace

Usage with replace argument (python file)

Provided replace argument for python file. It goes trough the file and if there is any TABs usages, they are replaced with spaces (1 tab = 4 spaces, PEP8). The new content is outputed to "<filename_tabs_removed>"file

python3 detect_tabs.py <filename> <10> replace

Usage with replace argument and custom space to TABS conversion (integer number)

Provided replace argument for file with optional argument for number (1 tab = provided number of spaces). It goes trough the file and if there is any TABs usages, they are replaced with spaces. The new content is outputed to "<filename_tabs_removed>"file

python3 detect_tabs.py <filename.py> replace

Example screenshots

Detailted output

Short output