Python Indent Script

So, Python scripting for PN is shaping up nicely. I fixed some leaks, I exposed some more classes, and look what I can do now:

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def findPrevLineLastChar(p, sci):
	while p > 0:
		p = p - 1
		c = chr( sci.GetCharAt(p) )
		
		# Look for a non-whitespace character ending the previous line.
		if not c in ['\n','\r','\t',' ']:
			return c
	return None

def python_indent(c, doc):
	sci = scintilla.Scintilla(doc)
	if c == '\n' or c == '\r':
		pos = sci.CurrentPos
		line = sci.LineFromPosition( pos )
		
		lc = findPrevLineLastChar( pos, sci )
		
		# If the previous line ended with a colon, then indent
		if lc == ':':
			indent = sci.GetLineIndentation( line )
			
			# Modify DumbIndent(tm) Indenting...
			previndent = sci.GetLineIndentation( line - 1 )
			if indent == previndent or indent == 0:
				indent += 4
				sci.IndentLine( line, indent )

# Hook up the python indenter.
s = getSchemeConfig("python")
s.indenter = python_indent

`

For those of you that can’t be bothered to read the above code to find out what it does, it provides a simplistic smart-indent algorithm for Python. If you add a new line after a “:” character, it indents the line.

Sure the algorithm could be more clever (it won’t work if there’s a comment after the ‘:’ for example) but the code basically works, and I can now write Python code with smart indenting. PN with Python rocks.