Out of the blue, when coding Python in Visual Studio Code, you might run into the following error.

1. Tabs To Spaces Visual Studio Code
2. Show Tab Space Visual Studio Code
3. Visual Studio 2017 Tabs Spaces
4. How To Set Tab Size In Visual Studio

“inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation”

This happens, because somewhere in your code, indentation is different than in the rest of your code. Generally, Python doesn’t care what kind of indentation your editor uses, whether it be some spaces, or tabs. But it expects you to be consistent.

Generally, VS Code is pretty good at guessing the kind of indentation is used in the file you’re working in. If you press control + , and scroll down to this setting, you can choose if you want VS Code to detect the kind of indentation in a particular file.

Furthermore, you can get to that same preference and also choose what kind of indentation you want by clicking on the ‘Tab Size: X’ in the bottom right corner of your IDE.

Visual Studio Code was not using the proper tab sizes or space settings for Elixir, so I found that I could change the settings for all Elixir files. I clicked on the language in the status bar ('Elixir' in my case), chose 'Configure 'Elixir' language based settings.' , and edited the Elixir-specific language settings.

1. Nov 20, 2019 Out of the blue, when coding Python in Visual Studio Code, you might run into the following error. “inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation” This happens, because somewhere in your code, indentation is different than in the rest of your code.
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3. Visual Studio will do this automatically for some file types (ex: C#) but some other file types it fails to update (ex: XAML) Per @shoelzer 's suggestion, this should be bi-directional (i.e. Changes spaces to tabs.
4. Every editor has a 'show whitespace' option now, and Visual Studio has a 'tabify' option – Chris S Jun 17 '11 at 9:31. That's the reason I gave up on trying to convince people that tabs are more logical. Even programmers who should be used to abstract thinking seems to confuse tabs and spaces ('if it looks like four spaces.

Finally, if you run into the error, and you want to get rid of the spaces (or vice versa), you can paste your code in Notepad++, and do a search and replace by pressing control + H. In the following screenshot I search for 4 spaces and I replace with a tab by entering t.

Tabs To Spaces Visual Studio Code

Show Tab Space Visual Studio Code

Great success!

Visual Studio 2017 Tabs Spaces

How To Set Tab Size In Visual Studio

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