spaces vs tabs

[fAntel]

Can I somehow tell autopep8 do not swap tabs with spaces. In pep8 I can use --ignore=W191. But even with --ignore=W191 autopep8 always swaps tabs with spaces.

[myint]

Try --ignore=W191,E101,E111.

[fAntel]

Thank you. With this options autopep8 swap spaces only in multiline lists and it easy to fix.

[jaraco]

This issue persists, as it's still converting tabs to spaces in multiline lists as reported above.

$ git diff 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 8bc8298..f85a3be 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -10,23 +10,23 @@ extensions = [
 master_doc = 'index'
 
 link_files = {
-       '../CHANGES.rst': dict(
-               using=dict(
-                       GH='https://github.com',
-               ),
-               replace=[
-                       dict(
-                               pattern=r'(Issue )?#(?P<issue>\d+)',
-                               url='{package_url}/issues/{issue}',
-                       ),
-                       dict(
-                               pattern=r'^(?m)((?P<scm_version>v?\d+(\.\d+){1,2}))\n[-=]+\n',
-                               with_scm='{text}\n{rev[timestamp]:%d %b %Y}\n',
-                       ),
-                       dict(
-                               pattern=r'PEP[- ](?P<pep_number>\d+)',
-                               url='https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-{pep_number:0>4}/',
-                       ),
-               ],
-       ),
+    '../CHANGES.rst': dict(
+        using=dict(
+            GH='https://github.com',
+        ),
+        replace=[
+            dict(
+                pattern=r'(Issue )?#(?P<issue>\d+)',
+                url='{package_url}/issues/{issue}',
+            ),
+            dict(
+                pattern=r'^(?m)((?P<scm_version>v?\d+(\.\d+){1,2}))\n[-=]+\n',
+                with_scm='{text}\n{rev[timestamp]:%d %b %Y}\n',
+            ),
+            dict(
+                pattern=r'PEP[- ](?P<pep_number>\d+)',
+                url='https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-{pep_number:0>4}/',
+            ),
+        ],
+    ),
 }

Although for fAntel, that was easy to fix, it's obnoxious on code bases that have more than a few multiline lists.

autopep8 should honor an option not to convert tabs to spaces.

[dbogatov]

Could we reopen the issue?
We need to have option to use tabs natively - not in a hacky way, like disabling errors.