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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2017-09-15 19:09:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-15 19:09:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 4d72945a28bc9e535a74b42eb0b40702c2f69e16 (patch) | |
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[3.6] bpo-314777: IDLE - improve rstrip entry in doc (GH-3602) (#3605)
'Strip trailing whitespace' is not limited to spaces. Wording caters to beginners who
do know know the meaning of 'whitespace'. Multiline string literals are not skipped.
(cherry picked from commit ff70289)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/idle.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index 0faeb6d..af15359 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ Format Paragraph paragraph will be formatted to less than N columns, where N defaults to 72. Strip trailing whitespace - Remove any space characters after the last non-space character of a line. + Remove trailing space and other whitespace characters after the last + non-whitespace character of a line by applying str.rstrip to each line, + including lines within multiline strings. .. index:: single: Run script |