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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2017-09-15 17:05:28 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-15 17:05:28 (GMT)
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bpo-314777: IDLE - improve rstrip entry in doc (#3602)
'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. * News blurb.
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@@ -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