Tabnanny really useful?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:

> Thanks for your explanation.
>
> I tried an found:
> def a():
> ->print
> ->.print
>
> where point is a space.
>
> tabnanny here complains and python compile it just fine.

really?  that's a syntax error (you cannot change indentation nillywilly
inside a block), and the Python I'm using surely flags this as an error:

$ python -c "print repr(open('franz.py').read())"
'def a():\n\tprint\n\t print\n'

$ python franz.py
  File "franz.py", line 3
    print
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

while tabnanny gives it one thumb up:

$ python -m tabnanny -v franz.py
'franz.py': Clean bill of health.

what Python version are you using?

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