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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2017-09-15 17:05:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-15 17:05:28 (GMT) |
| commit | ff702890027f404dbf5faab6730d1169b3251f66 (patch) | |
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| parent | 992f613fe6611f4a3e614a219d0ccb76bc4906d6 (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/idlelib/help.html | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html index 9005157..33ae884 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/help.html +++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.html @@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ community is 4 spaces.</dd> multiline string or selected line in a string. All lines in the paragraph will be formatted to less than N columns, where N defaults to 72.</dd> <dt>Strip trailing whitespace</dt> -<dd>Remove any space characters after the last non-space character of a line.</dd> +<dd>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.</dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="run-menu-editor-window-only"> @@ -779,7 +781,7 @@ also used for testing.</p> The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation. <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a> <br /> - Last updated on Sep 12, 2017. + Last updated on Sep 15, 2017. <a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>? <br /> Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.3.6. |