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

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 20:50:26 CEST 2007

[Neal Norwitz]

... The way to fix the files is to run: python ./Tools/scripts/reindent.py -r Lib

I apply it to everything in the checkout. That is, I run reindent.py from the root of my sandbox, and use "." instead of "Lib". The goal is that every .py file (not just under Lib/) that eventually shows up in a release use whitespace consistently.

At least that's what I did. Hopefully I didn't screw anything up. :-)

reindent.py has never been blamed for a "legitimate" screwup. On rare occasions it has broken tests, but only when the code mysteriously relied on significant trailing whitespace in the .py file. Such invisible dependence is considered (by me :-)) to be a bug in the code, not in reindent.py.

The other no-brainer is to run Tools/scripts/svneol.py regularly. That finds text files that don't have the svn:eol-style property set, and sets it.

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