[Python-Dev] whitespace normalization

[Terry Reedy]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message 
news:ca471dc20704251124v3b80b33ala02167305f41e191 at mail.gmail.com...
| On 4/25/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
| > Well, there are editors that don't intelligently strip whitespace, so 
that
| > people using them would be constantly pained by such a hook.
|
| And they should. There really is no excuse for letting one developer's
| poor choice of tools cause later grief for all other developers.

In 2.4.3, IDLE leaves trailing whitespace as is, even where senseless :-(
I'll check the 2.5.1 version when I install it.

tjr