Whitespaces are normal characters that are shown in the Code editor, ignored by most developers. Sometimes, It is very useful to show the whitespaces with some grey lines to have clear visibility for a programmer Tabs also contain spaces.

This tutorial explains about showing white spaces as dots and tabs as long lines.

How to Show whitespaces in Pycharm Editor

Please follow the below steps

  • Open PyCharm Editor

  • Go to File and Settings Menu

  • or Use Shortcut to Open Settings

    • MacOS: ⌘ + ;
    • Window/Linux: Ctrl + Alt + S pycharm Settings

  • On Settings Window, Select Editor ->

    pycharm Settings Show whitespaces

  • Check Show Whitespaces with the below checks

    • Leading: Applies to leading spaces
    • Inner: Spaces in words
    • Trailing: spaces after a string
    • Selection: selected strings spaces

  • It shows white spaces in the code editor as given below

    pycharm Code editor spaces learning and trail

  • After enabling the above, You observed that Tabs shown as a long line() and spaces as dot(.)