The spaces at the end of the page should never exist and if they do exist, this is a correct behavior. This is not produced by Pywikibot, but by MediaWiki API itself, we can do nothing about it.

In T214806#4913619, @Dvorapa wrote:

The spaces at the end of the page should never exist and if they do exist, this is a correct behavior. This is not produced by Pywikibot, but by MediaWiki API itself, we can do nothing about it.

I've changed the description accordingly.

In T214806#4918852, @abian wrote:

In T214806#4913619, @Dvorapa wrote:

The spaces at the end of the page should never exist and if they do exist, this is a correct behavior. This is not produced by Pywikibot, but by MediaWiki API itself, we can do nothing about it.

I've changed the description accordingly.

But that would prevent to touch the page containing whitespace at the end at all. There is no other way to touch the page without removing the whitespace. You can use -botflag to avoid flooding RC

In T214806#4918856, @Dvorapa wrote:

But that would prevent to touch the page containing whitespace at the end at all. There is no other way to touch the page without removing the whitespace. You can use -botflag to avoid flooding RC

Yeah, that's the price the operator would pay, but probably they want to touch a lot of pages and the rest would be touched.

Or you can avoid touching those pages using -grep:"\S$" parameter