Whitespace safe
The formatter expands tabs, trims trailing whitespace and keeps a final newline so snippets paste cleanly into editors.
Code cleanup
Normalize indentation, remove trailing whitespace and clean Python snippets without sending code to a backend.
Reference notes
The formatter expands tabs, trims trailing whitespace and keeps a final newline so snippets paste cleanly into editors.
Basic checks flag mixed tabs/spaces, sudden indentation jumps and suspicious dedents before you copy the result.
Code is handled by client-side JavaScript. Formalint does not run Python code or upload snippets to a server.
Frequently asked
Python uses indentation to define code blocks. Mixing tabs and spaces can produce an IndentationError, or worse, code that runs but executes a different block than intended depending on the editor's tab width setting.
This tool focuses on indentation and trailing whitespace cleanup. It does not enforce PEP 8 line length, import ordering, or string quote style the way a full formatter like Black does.
No. Only whitespace, indentation consistency, and trailing spaces are adjusted. Statements, variable names, and logic are left untouched.