whitespace cleanup

[Andrea Crotti]

On 12/06/2011 11:49 AM, Pedro Henrique G. Souto wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 09:28, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> > Now on Emacs I have a hook before every save that cleans up all the
> > "wrong" white spaces,
> > with the 'whitespace-cleanup' function.
> >
> > I would like that also for my non emacsers colleagues, and possibly 
> with
> > a Python script.
> > I looked up around but I can't find anything useful, any advice?
>
> You can use the strip() method: 
> [http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/lib/module-string.html]
>
> While reading the file as strings, the strip() method rips out all of 
> the extra whitespace.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Andrea
> >
>
> Good luck!
>

Well it's not so simple, I clearly don't want to strip out whitespace in 
the beginning of the line,
or my nice code will break miserably ;)

So I think some magic using tokens/regexp/python grammar would be useful 
to do something
reliable, or is it easier than that?