I'm told Tabnanny was inspired by lint, the Unix utiltity to check C sources (and probably others). Lint was primarily useful in days long ago when CPUs were slow and a compile used a significant amount of resources. In a multiuser environment (we ran an Intel 286 in multiuser mode!!), the compiles could bring everyone else to a crawl. Lint was used because it was a less-CPU intensive way to catch bonehead errors and fix them before using precious compile time.
Today,lint and Tabnanny may still have their uses as noted by others to cleanup the tab/space conundrum. -- Mike "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? > > best regards, > -- > Franz Steinhaeusler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
