Emacs bulk indent for Python

Question

Working with Python in Emacs if I want to add a try/except to a block of code, I often find that I am having to indent the whole block, line by line. In Emacs, how do you inden

Answer 1

Do indentation interactively.

1. Select the region to be indented.
2. C-x TAB.
3. Use arrows (<- and ->) to indent interactively.
4. Press Esc three times when you are done with the required indentation.

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Answer 2

I do something like this universally

;; intent whole buffer 
(defun iwb ()
  "indent whole buffer"
  (interactive)
  ;;(delete-trailing-whitespace)
  (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)
  (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))