At the beginning of a line of Jython script, the spaces
and tabs proceeding a non-blank character determines the indentation
level of a line. The indentation level is used to determine the grouping
of statements and block boundaries. The Jython language uses eight
whitespaces per tab character.
Before you begin
In the Jython editor, the indentation level defaults to
multiple of eight whitespaces. If you try to change the general text
editor's Display tab width setting () to another value other than 8,
the Jython editor ignores this change; however, the change in this
setting is available for all other text editors. This restriction
on the Jython editor to set eight whitespaces per tab character is
to avoid runtime problems as the Jython interpreter always interprets
tab characters to eight whitespaces.
About this task
To add and remove indentation in the Jython editor:
Procedure
- Open a Jython script file in the Jython editor:
- In Navigator view, expand the Jython project that contains
the Jython script file you want to add or remove the indentations.
- Right-click the Jython script file.
- In the pop-up menu, select .
- To shift lines of code to the right; in other words, add
an indentation level:
- Select the lines you want to shift right.
- Right-click on the Jython editor and select Shift
Right.
- To shift lines of code to the left; in other words, remove
an indentation level:
- Select the lines you want to shift left.
- Right-click the Jython editor and select Shift
Left.