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

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 22:00:04 CEST 2007

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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.

Trailing whitspace is never significant on a code line, only inside a multiline string literal. In the extremely rare cases where one of those requires trailing spaces, \x20 works fine.

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