[Python-checkins] bpo-314777: IDLE - improve rstrip entry in doc (#3602)

[Terry Jan Reedy]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ff702890027f404dbf5faab6730d1169b3251f66
commit: ff702890027f404dbf5faab6730d1169b3251f66
branch: master
author: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2017-09-15T13:05:28-04:00
summary:

 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.

* News blurb.

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2017-09-15-12-38-47.bpo-31477.n__6sa.rst
M Doc/library/idle.rst
M Lib/idlelib/help.html

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 @@
 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>
 <div class="section" id="run-menu-editor-window-only">
@@ -779,7 +781,7 @@
     The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation.
     <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a>
     <br />
-    Last updated on Sep 12, 2017.
+    Last updated on Sep 15, 2017.
     <a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>?
     <br />
     Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 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.