diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index 0faeb6df934..af153593e3c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -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 diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html index 9005157dd98..33ae8842055 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/help.html +++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.html @@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ community is 4 spaces. 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.
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.
@@ -779,7 +781,7 @@ also used for testing.

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- Last updated on Sep 12, 2017. + Last updated on Sep 15, 2017. Found a bug?
Created using Sphinx 1.3.6. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2017-09-15-12-38-47.bpo-31477.n__6sa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2017-09-15-12-38-47.bpo-31477.n__6sa.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4b47ed3f53b --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2017-09-15-12-38-47.bpo-31477.n__6sa.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more +than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.