Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <44032BBE.6090608@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060227163709.GA12538@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Uwe Zeisberger wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Uwe Zeisberger wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I think the question is whether completely empty lines are also ignored 
>>>>by Python, or if they start a new block of code. Whatever the case, it 
>>>>must hold true for both 2.3 and 2.4.
>>>
>>>see
>>>	http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/ref/blank-lines.html
>>>	http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/blank-lines.html
>>>	http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/blank-lines.html
>>>
>>
>>So in essence, a multi-line statement is closed when a completely empty 
>>line is found,
> 
> Wrong.
> 
> i.e. In scripts, lines containing only (zero or more) whitespaces are
> ignored.
>

I stand corrected. Thrice, even. Voi, voi... :)

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