"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you think tabnanny is a useful piece of code now? I used it a lot when I first started using Python, and still run it over code from unknown sources (no pun intended) from time to time.
I think it's a lot less useful today than it was a few years ago, but it's still useful if you're stuck with an editor that doesn't give you a robust set of options, or if you've got to check a lot of modules in a library.
I think most python-aware editors have included the needed functionality, or at least some reasonable approximation.
I know what I would like to see in an editor:
First, it autodetects whether the module uses tabs consistently, spaces consistently or a mixture. If it uses tabs consistently, it then uses the current default.
If it uses spaces consistently, it should also autodetect the indentation setting in use in the module and offer to change it if it's different from the current default indentation setting.
If it's inconsistent, it should make an attempt to deduce the model the creating software used; if it can it should change it to the default setting without complaining. Otherwise it should complain.
John Roth
regards
Steve
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