trailing whitespace optimization
I'm noticing that our file sizes could be reduced by 10% or more by trimming trailing whitespace. Is there a way to get Zope to do that automatically? It would be best if Zope did it whenever a method was saved. Thanks in advance, -Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Paul Abrams wrote:
I'm noticing that our file sizes could be reduced by 10% or more by trimming trailing whitespace. Is there a way to get Zope to do that automatically? It would be best if Zope did it whenever a method was saved.
Agreed. I have found that reformatting can save much space. However, sometimes you might actually WANT those spaces there. I know, HTML is supposed to ignore whitespace, but there could be various reasons you would want to keep trailing spaces. Really, your best solution is to stop being to slack, and remove the spaces yourself! (o8
Thanks in advance, -Paul
Have a better one, Curtis Maloney. <dtml-var standard_work_disclaimer>
Hi Paul, You're right about the size of files with trailing blanks. I had a file of over 1 meg yesterday, and when I striped all the blanks it was only 47K, pretty radical reduction. There is an external Python method that is part of the zope Extenions library, it should be in something called /opt/zope/Extensions/ called strip_blanks.py. You can attach it to your zope session, then it is called via: <dtml-var "strip_blank(varName)[:-1]"> This will at least strip all the trailing blanks from an individual variable. ciao! greg. Gregory Haley venaca.com Paul Abrams wrote:
I'm noticing that our file sizes could be reduced by 10% or more by trimming trailing whitespace. Is there a way to get Zope to do that automatically? It would be best if Zope did it whenever a method was saved.
Thanks in advance, -Paul
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Gregory Haley wrote:
Hi Paul,
You're right about the size of files with trailing blanks. I had a file of over 1 meg yesterday, and when I striped all the blanks it was only 47K, pretty radical reduction.
There is an external Python method that is part of the zope Extenions library, it should be in something called /opt/zope/Extensions/ called strip_blanks.py. You can attach it to your zope session, then it is called via:
<dtml-var "strip_blank(varName)[:-1]">
Is this the same as calling <dtml-var "_.string.strip(varName)"> only slower? ;-) Regards Tino Wildenhain
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