:mod:`tabnanny` --- Detection of ambiguous indentation

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.. module:: tabnanny

   :synopsis: Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a

              directory tree.

.. moduleauthor:: Tim Peters <tim_one@users.sourceforge.net>

.. sectionauthor:: Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>

.. rudimentary documentation based on module comments

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 :func:`check`

described below.

.. warning::

   The API provided by this module is likely to change  in future releases; such

   changes may not be backward compatible.

.. function:: 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 :file:`.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.

.. data:: verbose

   Flag indicating whether to print verbose messages. This is incremented by the

   ``-v`` option if called as a script.

.. data:: 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 :func:`tokeneater` if detecting an ambiguous indent. Captured and

   handled in :func:`check`.

.. function:: tokeneater(type, token, start, end, line)

   This function is used by :func:`check` as a callback parameter to the function

   :func:`tokenize.tokenize`.

.. XXX document errprint, format_witnesses, Whitespace, check_equal, indents,

   reset_globals

.. seealso::

   Module :mod:`tokenize`

      Lexical scanner for Python source code.