PEP 8 style enforcing program

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

montyphyton at gmail.com schrieb:
> Some recent posts about Python programming style got me thinking.
> Since we have the PEP 8 which gives some guidelines about the style to
> be used, do we have any program that can check for violations of these
> guidelines within the source code? I understand that there are a lot
> of code beautifiers out there, but i haven't seen one specially
> tailored for Python... Is there even a desire in Python community for
> a program like this (by Python community I mean the people in this
> group:) ) ? I think it would be a nice little project for practice and
> I'd like to do it, but if there is already something like this then I
> can probably spend my time on something more productive. So, I'd like
> to hear your opinion on this...
> There is one thing that I don't understand about PEP 8 - why is using
> spaces considered more desirable than using tabs for indentation?
> 

Pylint is one of them (http://www.logilab.org/857)

With spaces you get always the same len of the line, where tabs can use 2,4,8 
spaces, dependingt on the settings of the  IDE

Alexander