scripts/rstrip-whitespace.py

   1 #!/usr/bin/env python
   2
   3 import sys
   4
   5 filenames = sys.argv[1:]
   6
   7 def backup_file (fn):
   8     open ("%s~" % fn, "w").write (open (fn, "r").read ())
   9
  10 for fn in filenames:
  11   #backup_file (fn)
  12   contents = open (fn, "r").read ()
  13   lines = contents.split ('\n')
  14   with open (fn, "w") as fobj:
  15     for line in lines:
  16       line = line.rstrip ()
  17       fobj.write ("%s\n" % line)
  18   contents = open (fn, "r").read ()
  19   contents.rstrip ()
  20   while contents[-1] in " \t\r\n":
  21     contents = contents[:-1]
  22   open (fn, "w").write ("%s\n" % contents)
  23