Thanks for the explanations! I will never see trailing spaces in the
same way now. I use Eclipe and it has an option to delete
automatically trailing spaces, but I disabled it since I found it
anoying.

Harold

On 10 juin, 20:40, "Aaron S. Meurer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are a few reasons that trailing whitespace is bad.  For one thing, git 
> will bug you endlessly about it if it is there, and it adds ugly red blocks 
> where it is in a git diff (this is how I noticed it).  I guess the problem is 
> that you can't tell it is there, unless you have an editor that explicitly 
> shows it to you. There are probably all kinds of other problems that it can 
> cause.  For example, suppose you wanted to find all lines of Python code that 
> use one-liner syntax for if or while loops, such as
>
> if x: return True
>
> You could try grepping for :.+$, but if you have regular if x: lines with 
> trailing whitespace after the :, it will grab those too.  This is just a 
> simple example, but you can see how it can throw things off.  Also, it is 
> particularly important for languages like Python where whitespace is part of 
> the syntax.  Maybe others will also have some good reasons.  
>
> And frankly, it makes for cleaner code.
>
> By the way, depending on what editor you use, there is probably a way to set 
> it to automatically clear trailing whitespace on a save. Then you just don't 
> have to worry about it.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Harold E. wrote:
>
> > Ok for the trailing spaces, I did not know. For curiosity, why are
> > they deprecated?
> > The next times I will think to test and things like that.
>
> > Harold
>
> > On 10 juin, 20:11, "Aaron S. Meurer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Great!  One thing that I can see right away in GitX is that you need to 
> >> clear trailing whitespace in your files.   The bin/strip_whitespace 
> >> utility will help you with this, and the 
> >> sympy/utilities/tests/test_code_quality.py test will tell you if you have 
> >> any.  It's a good idea to run ./bin/test before committing anyway.
>
> >> Looking forward to your work.
>
> >> Aaron Meurer
> >> On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Harold E. wrote:
>
> >>> Thanks to Vinzent I created a repo on Github with a branch for units :
> >>>http://github.com/melsophos/sympy/tree/units
> >>> I will work on it essentially during the summer since I'm in stage
> >>> now.
>
> >>> Harold
>
> >>> On 16 mai, 19:43, Vinzent Steinberg <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 16 Mai, 00:11, "Harold E." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On 15 mai, 23:40, "Aaron S. Meurer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> Go ahead and create an issue for it.  If you can push the changes up 
> >>>>>> to github, that would also make things easier.
>
> >>>>> There is no need to have a certain status to push? Also is it not
> >>>>> preferable to wait that my code is almost done?
>
> >>>> It does not hurt to publish your work in progress on github, so we can
> >>>> already have a look at it before. Of course it will be pushed to
> >>>> master only if done.
>
> >>>> Release early, release often. :)
>
> >>>> Vinzent
>
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