Stephen Emslie added the comment: Here's that keeps the whitespace in tact, along with a simple test. This doesn't patch docs as the existing documentation_ already describes the long string as multiple lines of "plain text in reStructuredText format", which is what this fixes.
.. _documentation: http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/setupscript.html#additional-meta-data Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9310/distutils_metadata_whitespace.diff __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1923> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
