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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:49:58 -0200
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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!

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