6.25kB of trailing whitespace in Django code

[Piotr Lewandowski <django@…>]

$ grep --only-matching --no-file --recursive --extended-regexp --include='*.py' '[[:space:]]+$' django-trunk | wc -c
6406

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This isn't worth doing as a single thing. It's a small amount of space and we (the committers) tend to remove it when we're in the area. Doing it as a huge patch just changes the output of "svn annotate" without a really strong reason, which can make debugging harder. There's no impact on the code with this whitespace present, so thanks, but it's fine as it is.

[Piotr Lewandowski <django@…>]

My real intent when opening this ticket was to draw your (the commiters) attention to this issue, rather than had it solved in one commit. After all, Django is meant to be a framework for perfectionists. :-)

[Ramiro Morales]

From what I've seen while working with patches for the Django code tree, It seems the text editors of some core committers (Jacob comes to mind) are configured so they:

• Don't truncate extra spaces from the end of files and
• Don't make sure all files end with a new line