Is there a quick way to decrease the indentation of multiple lines in Python?

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sma picture sma · Feb 18, 2012 · Viewed 31.6k times · Source

I am a newbie to python programming. I find that decreasing the indentation of a block of codes in python is quite annoying. For example, given the following code snippet

for i in range(density):
   if i < 5:
      x, y = rnd(0,shape[1]//2)*2, rnd(0,shape[0]//2)*2
      Z[y,x] = 1 
      ....
      ....

If I comment the if statement, I have to decrease the indentation for lines in the if block one by one, is there a way that I can do this by one key stroke as I increase the indentation of a block of codes by selecting them and press the TAB key? I guess this is environment dependent, so could you please provide solutions to do so in Eclipse+Pydev, VIM, and other common editors?

Answer

Borealid picture Borealid · Feb 18, 2012

In vim, you select the block and then press the < key.

In Eclipse you select it and then press SHIFT + TAB.

Every code editor worth its salt has a one-key way to indent and dedent blocks.

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