[Python-Dev] Re: whitespace normalization

[Tim Peters]

Your @Home email is working?!  I'm back on MSN.  @Home is up, but times out
on almost everything for me.

> I've seen a couple of checkins lately from you like this:
>
> > Modified Files:
> > 	random.py robotparser.py
> > Log Message:
> > Whitespace normalization.
>
> Apparently you watch checkins to the std library and run reindent on
> changed modules occasionally.

I run reindent on *all* std Library modules once or twice a week:  if a file
is a reindent fixed-point, reindent leaves it entirely alone, so no spurious
checkins are generated.  That is, reindent saves "before" and "after"
versions of the entire module in memory, and doesn't even write a new file
if before == after.

> Would it make sense to check in a test case into the test suite that
> verifies that all std modules are reindent fixpoints, so that whoever
> changes a module gets a chance to catch this before they check in?

Don't think it's worth the bother:  running reindent over everything in Lib/
takes well over 10 seconds on my 866MHz box, so it would end up getting
skipped by people anway.  More suitable for an infrequent cron job, yes?