"Franz Steinhaeusler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I looked at tabnanny to check a python source file.
But I didn't find anything, tabnanny is able to find, what couldn't be found by compile command.
Or have I missed something?
Tabnanny is intended to check whether indentation has mixed tabs and spaces. Files with mixed tabs and spaces _can_ compile just fine if the editor that produced them agrees with the compiler about the number of spaces that a tab occupies.
On the other hand, such files are quite likely to be messed up almost beyond repair if one tries to edit them in an editor that treats tabs differently from the one that produced it.
Files that stick to one or the other can always be edited and compiled properly. The python recommendation is to use spaces, but not everyone agrees with this.
Most modern Python-aware editors handle the situation reasonably, although you may have to set parameters.
John Roth
best regards,
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