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ActivePython 2.4
Python Documentation
Library Reference
18. Python Language Services
18.1 parser -- Access Python parse trees
18.2 symbol -- Constants used with Python parse trees
18.3 token -- Constants used with Python parse trees
18.4 keyword -- Testing for Python keywords
18.5 tokenize -- Tokenizer for Python source
18.6 tabnanny -- Detection of ambiguous indentation
18.7 pyclbr -- Python class browser support
18.8 py compile -- Compile Python source files
18.9 compileall -- Byte-compile Python libraries
18.10 dis -- Disassembler for Python byte code
18.11 pickletools -- Tools for pickle developers.
18.12 distutils -- Building and installing Python modules

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18.6 tabnanny -- Detection of ambiguous indentation

For the time being this module is intended to be called as a script. However it is possible to import it into an IDE and use the function check() described below.

Warning: The API provided by this module is likely to change in future releases; such changes may not be backward compatible.

check( file_or_dir)
If file_or_dir is a directory and not a symbolic link, then recursively descend the directory tree named by file_or_dir, checking all .py files along the way. If file_or_dir is an ordinary Python source file, it is checked for whitespace related problems. The diagnostic messages are written to standard output using the print statement.

verbose
Flag indicating whether to print verbose messages. This is incremented by the -v option if called as a script.

filename_only
Flag indicating whether to print only the filenames of files containing whitespace related problems. This is set to true by the -q option if called as a script.

exception NannyNag
Raised by tokeneater() if detecting an ambiguous indent. Captured and handled in check().

tokeneater( type, token, start, end, line)
This function is used by check() as a callback parameter to the function tokenize.tokenize().

See Also:

Module tokenize:
Lexical scanner for Python source code.
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