Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] A couple more tests for some edge cases

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM, John Szakmeister <jo...@sz...> wrote:
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> I understand.  Thanks for clearing that up.  It's also weird that the
> space before the hash gets inserted into the HTML, rather than
> stripped.  I'm not sure why that was happening.
>

Well, I didn't write that code, but I suppose it's because whitespace
at the beginning of a line can be significant, so the parser is
careful to not strip any whitespace. Of course, once we get to the
paragraph processing code, that is no longer an issue, so we could
strip is there. However, then we only want to lstrip, so that we don't
strip manual line breaks (two spaces at end of line). Seeing
whitespace is insignificant in html, I'm guessing the thinking was
it's easier to leave whitespace alone. But, yeah, I probably would
have cleaned up that whitespace myself.



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