bpo-314777: IDLE - improve rstrip entry in doc (#3602)

'Strip trailing whitespace' is not limited to spaces.  Wording caters to beginners who
do know know the meaning of 'whitespace'.  Multiline string literals are not skipped.

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Terry Jan Reedy 2017-09-15 13:05:28 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ Format Paragraph
paragraph will be formatted to less than N columns, where N defaults to 72.
Strip trailing whitespace
Remove any space characters after the last non-space character of a line.
Remove trailing space and other whitespace characters after the last
non-whitespace character of a line by applying str.rstrip to each line,
including lines within multiline strings.
.. index::
single: Run script

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@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ community is 4 spaces.</dd>
multiline string or selected line in a string. All lines in the
paragraph will be formatted to less than N columns, where N defaults to 72.</dd>
<dt>Strip trailing whitespace</dt>
<dd>Remove any space characters after the last non-space character of a line.</dd>
<dd>Remove trailing space and other whitespace characters after the last
non-whitespace character of a line by applying str.rstrip to each line,
including lines within multiline strings.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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@ -779,7 +781,7 @@ also used for testing.</p>
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IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more
than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.