Spacing

Basic access

Spacing (whitespace, tab, or newline) can be accessed in the similar way as other optional properties, through raw_spacing_before, spacing_before, raw_spacing_after, and spacing_after.

Note

Indentation is NOT considered as spacing here.

file = p.parse('''\
2000-01-01 open Assets:Foo

\t

2000-01-02close Assets:Foo
''', models.File)
open, close = file.directives

Read:

(close.spacing_before, close.raw_spacing_before)

('\n\n\t\n\n',
 (<Newline: '\n'>,
  <Newline: '\n'>,
  <Whitespace: '\t'>,
  <Newline: '\n'>,
  <Newline: '\n'>))

(close.raw_date.spacing_after, close.raw_date.raw_spacing_after)

('', ())

Write:

close.spacing_before = '\n\n'

_print_model(file)

2000-01-01 open Assets:Foo

2000-01-02close Assets:Foo

Ownership

Unlikely other models, spacing has no ownership. In the example above, the space between open and close can be accessed through both open.spacing_after and close.spacing_before.

(open.raw_spacing_after, close.raw_spacing_before)

((<Newline: '\n'>, <Newline: '\n'>), (<Newline: '\n'>, <Newline: '\n'>))