[TxMt] Code folding for Python?

[Thomas Aylott]

Personally, I blame Python for being dumb.
What kind of crazy language requires perfect whitespace or everything  
breaks?!
Sheer Madness!

I wants my 1 line classes dagnabbit!

On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Sean Schertell wrote:

> Well, at least I have a clear answer now. It's a bit disappointing  
> though that the code folding system as it's currently implemented  
> wasn't made to handle one of the major scripting languages in use  
> today (and my personal favorite)
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> Oh well -- I guess I'll have to wait. Thanks again.
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> Sean
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> On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Alex Ross wrote:
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>>> Please forgive me if this has been asked and answered before...  
>>> But is there any way to fold your code normally when using TM for  
>>> Python?
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>> Well, yeah... this comes up from time to time.  But since you  
>> asked, I'll forgive you.  ;-)
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>> The short answer is “no”.
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>> The longer answer is that Textmate folds by looking for “Start” and  
>> “End” markers.  Python folding is indentation based, but Textmate  
>> has no way of reliably matching that.  So we have some hacks that  
>> don't really work.
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>>> Any tips from my fellow Pythonistas?
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>> You can use the “Cleanup Whitespace” command.  This command does  
>> what it can to put the file in a state where the hacks can kinda- 
>> sorta fold your code.
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>> But don't lose hope!  At some point in the future, the folding  
>> system is getting an overhaul.  Things will be better then.
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>> – Alex
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