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.
diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst
index 0faeb6d..af15359 100644
--- a/Doc/library/idle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@
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.
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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html
index 9005157..33ae884 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 @@
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+ Last updated on Sep 15, 2017.
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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 0000000..4b47ed3
--- /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.