Hi, I'm relatively new to Python but have lots of prior programming experience as a developer, instructor, and author (ASP/VBScript/SQL Server and Clipper.)
I'm trying to write an app that parses a text file containing an outline useing essentially the same indentation rules as Python source code, i.e. the first level has no indent, the second level has one indent, third level has two indents, and so on. However, I can't know for sure that the indentations are tabs or spaces, or even mixed tabs and spaces. What's more, I can't know for sure what tab spacing the persons editor was using if they saved as spaces, i.e. tab='N' spaces where N= (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,...) Clearly the source code for Python has to figure this out, but I wonder if anyone knows how to do this in Python. Frankly I'm stumped on how to find an elegant algorithm that does require multipass parsing and lots of code. Any help would be appreciated. -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
