[Python-Dev] whitespace normalization (original) (raw)

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Wed Apr 25 21:14:13 CEST 2007


Tim> ... but only when the code mysteriously
Tim> relied on significant trailing whitespace in the .py file.

Maybe \s should expand to a single space by the lexer so people who want to rely on trailing spaces can be explicit about it. There already exists non-whitespace escape sequences for tabs and newlines.

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