''' Copyright (C) 2023 CG Cookie http://cgcookie.com hello@cgcookie.com Created by Jonathan Denning, Jonathan Williamson This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ''' import re def fix_string(s, *, remove_indentation=True, remove_initial_newline=True, remove_trailing_spaces=True): if remove_initial_newline: s = re.sub(r'^\n', '', s) if remove_trailing_spaces: s = re.sub(r' +\n', '\n', s) s = re.sub(r' +$', '', s) if remove_indentation: indent = min(( len(line) - len(line.lstrip()) for line in s.splitlines() if line.strip() ), default=0) s = '\n'.join( line if not line.strip() else line[indent:] for line in s.splitlines() ) return s