[Python-Dev] Fun with whitespace (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 19:13:28 CEST 2004


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Checking in all the changes is proving to be a challenge, ...

Using "cvs admin -uREV file" managed to break the mysterious version locks that were holding this up, and it's done now. Running "reindent -r ." from the root of a checkout now leaves everything alone. That in turns means that all the .py files in the checkout:

The "-u all" tests pass on WinXP, in release and debug builds.

Apologies in advance if breakage occurred on other platforms, but code relying on trailing whitespace-- or hard tab characters --in .py files is so non-WYSIWYG it needed to be repaired anyway. The good news is that it's dead easy to keep the tree in whitespace-pristine shape now.



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