[Python-Dev] Fixing incorrect indentations in C files (Decoder functions accept str in py3k)

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 17:31, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:43, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Even if we do adopt such a rule, C patches posted to the tracker should
>>> still try to avoid including pure whitespace changes though - leaving
>>> the whitespace changes in the patch tends to lead to patches that look
>>> like "remove function body, add different function body" when only a
>>> couple of lines have actually had significant changes.
>>>
>>
>> That's fine with me. Correcting whitespace can be considered a committer's job.
>
> Maybe a rule could be added to Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py?

To do what? Re-indent automatically? Or notify the person that there
seems to be a need to re-indent some code?

-Brett