Missing spaces can increase costs
→ search all non-blank lines terminated with one or more spaces that are not inside a comment
Why you should care
Avoid trailing whitespace anywhere. Because it’s usually invisible, it can be confusing: e.g. a backslash followed by a space and a newline does not count as a line continuation marker. Some editors don’t preserve it and many projects (like CPython itself) have pre-commit hooks that reject it.
Business Impacts
It is recommended to avoid these in order to ensure the code is more readable and cost effective.
CAST recommendations
References
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#whitespace-in-expressions-and-statements
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