The tab/space checking code in the tokenizer seems to get confused by the recently checked in test_pyexpat.py With python -t or -tt, there are inconsistency reports at places where there doesn't seem to be one. (tabnanny seems to be confused too, btw :) ./python -tt Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py File "Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py", line 13 print 'Start element:\n\t', name, attrs ^ SyntaxError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation Thus, "make test" reports a failure on test_pyexpat due to a syntax error, instead of a missing optional feature (expat not compiled in). I'm not an expert of the tokenizer code, so someone might want to look at it and tell us what's going on. Without -t or -tt, the code runs fine. -- Vladimir MARANGOZOV | Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr http://sirac.inrialpes.fr/~marangoz | tel:(+33-4)76615277 fax:76615252
[Vladimir Marangozov]
The tab/space checking code in the tokenizer seems to get confused by the recently checked in test_pyexpat.py
With python -t or -tt, there are inconsistency reports at places where there doesn't seem to be one. (tabnanny seems to be confused too, btw :)
They're not confused, they're simply reporting that the indentation is screwed up in this file -- which it is. It mixes tabs and spaces in ambiguous ways.
... I'm not an expert of the tokenizer code, so someone might want to look at it and tell us what's going on. Without -t or -tt, the code runs fine.
If you set your editor to believe that tab chars are 4 columns (as my Windows editor does), the problem (well, problems -- many lines are flawed) will be obvious. It runs anyway because tab=8 is hardcoded in the Python parser. Quickest fix is for someone at CNRI to just run this thru one of the Unix detabifier programs.
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