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-Original README for Tabcleaner.py
-
-tabcleaner.py is a utility that reformats leading whitespace in a Python source.
-It uses tokenize.py (from the std distribution) to detect INDENTs and DEDENTs,
-then reformats according to the user's options (tabs-only, spaces-only with
-indent size n, or mixed with tab worth m and indent level of n).
-
-Python does not care about the indent of comments and multi-linestrings.
-tabcleaner places these at what Python considers the current indentlevel. About
-half the time, this is correct; the rest of the time it is probably one indent
-level less than what was desired. It is pretty much guaranteed to be
-syntactically correct, (earlier versions broke on some triple-quoted strings).
-
-With no args, (or "-h") prints usage text.
-
-Contact: gmcm@hypernet.com
-
-Additional comments: I have made a few slight changes. It was written to take
-command line arguments, so that you can set parameters like the size of indents,
-and whether you want the result to be all tabs, or all spaces, or a mixture of
-both (an evil combination, if you ask me). It is set, be default, to change your
-indentation to all tabs.
-
-In the current version of Python, all the code in the standard library is
-indented with only spaces. This is a somewhat awkward standard on the mac, so
-most MacPython code is indented with only tabs. This script can be used to do any
-version, but all tabs is the default, which seems to be the best option for the
-Mac.
-
-How to use it on a Mac:
-
-The script is set up to take filenames (or directory names) on the command line.
-To simulate this behaviour with MacPython, you can build an applet out of it
-(with BuildApplet, which should be in your Python folder). Any files draggged and
-dropped onto the resulting applet will be converted to all tabs, with a backup
-copy havning been saved.
-
-If you want the script to convert to space based indentation, your best bet is
-probably to change the default on line 46 of the file.
-
--Chris Barker cbarker@jps.net