Convert Spaces to Tabs

spaces2tabs.py

import os
import re

#whatever filter you would like to apply
os.system('find * -type f | egrep -v ".svn" | egrep "\.(js|mustache|css|html|txt|less|sass|as|cfml|mxml)$" > /tmp/sourcefiles.txt')

with open('/tmp/sourcefiles.txt') as f:
	files = f.read().strip().split("\n")

for file in files:
	print "Processing", file

	with open(file, 'r') as f: #read the file
		lines = f.read().split("\n")

	for i,line in enumerate(lines):
		if re.search("^\s+", line): #if white space is detected at start of line replace it
			lines[i] = line.replace("    ","\t")

	with open(file, 'w') as f:
		str = "\n".join(lines)
		f.write(str)
		#print str

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