[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Tools/bgen/bgen bgenGenerator.py, 1.17, 1.18 bgenObjectDefinition.py, 1.29, 1.30 bgenType.py, 1.15, 1.16 bgenVariable.py, 1.6, 1.7 scantools.py, 1.37, 1.38

[Tim Peters]

[tim_one at users.sourceforge.net]
>> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Tools/bgen/bgen
>> In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv18095/Tools/
>> bgen/bgen
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>     bgenGenerator.py bgenObjectDefinition.py bgenType.py
>>     bgenVariable.py scantools.py
>> Log Message:
>> Normalize whitespace to avoid offending Bug Day volunteers.

[Jack Jansen]
> Argh, sorry... I thought I had all my machines educated to do tab
> expansion for Python, but apparently not...

You probably do.  I run Tools/scripts/reindent.py over the whole
source tree from time to time, and check in whatever it changes. 
Converting tabs to 4-space indents is one of the things it does, but
not the only thing.  Most often these days it finds trailing
whitespace at the end of a line, and snips it off.  Once in a great
while, that catches code that *depends* on trailing whitespace
(typically in a long string literal), which is viciously obscure
(nobody looking at the file can see the dependence, and editors may
remove it).  It also removes empty lines at the end of a .py file,
ensures that the final line ends with a newline, and changes "oddball"
indent levels to 4-space indents (curiously, that one triggers
2nd-most often these days).

In any case, it's not like this is work <wink> -- no need to feel apologetic.