how to fix the "W293 blank line contains whitespace"

Question

my python code produce the following warning message:

(1) \dir\file.py:8:1 W293 blank lines contains whitespace
this comes after commands[0] flake8 XXX

how do you fix the issue?

Make sure that any seemingly-blank line has no spaces or tabs. — jonrsharpe, Jan 26 '15 at 22:08

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Using the same principal from this question, you can use autopep8 to automatically fix these. The syntax is ...

    autopep8 --select=W293 --in-place your_file.py

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Community

answered Jan 28 '16 at 17:18

Mister Brainley

You can configure autopep8 to ignore certain error codes, either at the project or user level. For example, you could add the following lines to a `setup.cfg` in your project's directory ... `[pycodestyle]` `ignore = W293` See documentation for more info. http://pep8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#configuration – Mister Brainley May 27 '18 at 19:06

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '15 at 22:31

4

Simply delete the spaces, tabs, or other white space characters from line 8 in file.py.

answered Jan 26 '15 at 22:31

jgritty

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '21 at 05:49

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Blank lines should not contain any tabs or spaces. So remove the extra spaces as per PEP8. Source - https://ayush-raj-blogs.hashnode.dev/making-clean-pr-for-open-source-contributors-pep-8-style

answered May 13 '21 at 05:49

pythonboi

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