"""For a start, fabricate won't say "* missing separator" if you use spaces instead of tabs.""" - No, but it will say "IndentationError: unindent does not match

"""For a start, fabricate won't say "* missing separator" if you use spaces instead of tabs.""" - No, but it will say "IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level" if you mess up Python's indentation :-)