Is there a quick way to decrease the indentation of multiple lines in Python?

In vim, you select the block and then press the < key.

In Eclipse you select it and then press SHIFT + TAB.

Every code editor worth its salt has a one-key way to indent and dedent blocks.

You could also replace the if statement with:

if True:  # if i < 5:

and leave everything else alone - no indent/dedent to undo later.

python eclipse pydev edit indentation

Perhaps late for your case, but if useful for others:

SHIFT + TAB will do unindent for the selected text in Eclipse.

CodeHunter