[TIP] Coverage.py 4.1b2: re-written branch measurement

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jan 28 16:02:03 PST 2016


Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:

> On 1/28/16 2:24 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > I'll try to grab these numbers, but another thing I thought of: would the
> > rewrite be differently affected by the ^L's in the source?
> That shouldn't be affected..
>
> For the rest of the list: Barry seems to be the last developer to use
> formfeeds in code, and I have twice had to fix problems because of it!
> :)

He's not alone. It is perfectly valid whitespace in a lot of source
code, including Python. It makes for useful semantic divisions within a
file.

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