
``tabnanny`` --- Detection of ambiguous indentation
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**Source code:** Lib/tabnanny.py

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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.

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

tabnanny.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()`` function.

tabnanny.verbose

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

tabnanny.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 exception tabnanny.NannyNag

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

tabnanny.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.
