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README.md

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+# Spaceify
+
+This is a quickly put together utility. It takes a folder, and tries to open eveyr text file in it.
+
+It then turns every tab (\t) into 4 spaces, beacause IT'S THE LAW.
+
+```
+usage: spaceify.py [-h] -f FOLDER
+
+options:
+  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
+  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
+                        Folder to search in
+```

spaceify.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#coding: utf-8
+import os
+import sys
+
+def get_args():
+    '''Gets all the arguments passed to the script and returns them in a parse_args()-type object.
+    No args
+    Returns:
+    -args : an args object containing all the optional arguments passed to the script.
+    '''
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("-f", "--folder", help = "Folder to search in", action="store", type=str, required=True)
+
+    #Creating the args object
+    args=parser.parse_args()
+
+    return args
+
+def spaceify(filepath):
+    """Spaceify the file given by the absolute path filepath.
+    """
+
+    with open(filepath, "r") as myfile:
+        myfile = myfile.read()
+
+    myfile.replace("\t", "    ")
+    with open(filepath, "w") as yourfile:
+        yourfile.write(myfile)
+
+
+args = get_args()
+look_folder = args.folder
+if look_folder[-1] == "/":
+    look_folder = look_folder[:-1]
+
+for thing in os.listdir(look_folder):
+    fpath = f"{look_folder}/{thing}"
+    if os.path.isfile(fpath):
+        try:
+            print(f"Working on {fpath}")
+            spaceify(fpath)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Got exception {e} for {fpath}, sorry")

testdir/1.c

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