Nathan Harold added the comment:
Here's my shot at a revision (corresponding patch attached):
Clean up indentation from docstrings that are indented to line up with blocks
of code. All leading whitespace is removed from the first line. Any leading
whitespace that can be uniformly removed from the second line onwards is
removed. Empty lines at the beginning and end are subsequently removed.
Also,
all tabs are expanded to spaces.
This version also makes it explicit that nothing happens to trailing
whitespace, should a line happen to have any. This actually seems to be a
difference between this function and the sample implementation in the PEP.
One odd side effect of that difference is that a line consisting only of
whitespace may actually not be removed from the beginning or end of the string,
if the preceding whitespace removals aren't sufficient to leave the line
completely empty. For instance:
>>> inspect.cleandoc(' A \n B \n \n ')
'A \nB \n '
Two spaces are removed from each of the second, third, and fourth lines. The
fourth line is then empty and is removed; the third line still contains one
space and is kept.
On the other hand, as defined in the PEP, the extra space on the third line is
removed as trailing whitespace, so that the third line is then removed entirely:
>>> trim(' A \n B \n \n ')
'A\nB'
Most likely this difference rarely affects anything. In any case, mentioning
it here because it influenced exactly how I revised the docs.
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keywords: +patch
nosy: +nharold
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43018/cleandoc.patch
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