Merge pull request #5826 from anntzer/strip-spaces-in-properties-doc

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 43c14a011a5f · 2016-01-10T15:58:48.000-05:00
Strip spaces in properties doc after newline.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/artist.py b/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ def get_valid_values(self, attr):
 
         match = self._get_valid_values_regex.search(docstring)
         if match is not None:
-            return match.group(1).replace('\n', ' ')
+            return re.sub("\n *", " ", match.group(1))
         return 'unknown'
 
     def _get_setters_and_targets(self):
