[New-bugs-announce] [issue31477] IDLE 'strip trailing whitespace' changes the value of multiline strings

[Dan Snider]

New submission from Dan Snider:

This function is supposed to be purely cosmetic. It just cleans up the junk whitespace commonly left behind when coding. But it could cause a problem when someone expects some string they defined to stay the same value, and then use that function and all of a sudden they have a crazy bug that you wouldn't even know how to find.

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assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
messages: 302204
nosy: bup, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE 'strip trailing whitespace' changes the value of multiline strings
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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