Trailing spaces can increase costs

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Missing spaces can increase costs

This code insight counts one violation each time a line of code is ended with trailing whitespaces. → 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.
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CAST recommendations

References

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#whitespace-in-expressions-and-statements

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