Hi everyone I m running into some error that surprise me Tra

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Hi everyone I m running into some error that surprise me Trailing whitespaces in the `parameters yml` cause `ParserError Invalid YAML or JSON file workspaces dodo kedro conf base data processing yml unable to read line 161 position` I don t recall this being the case Has it always been so Or could this be something introduced in 0 18 13 Thx in advance Regards M

datajoely · Answer

so we re just bubbling up the error from PyYAML parser

datajoely · Answer

it does give you the token index you were able to resolve right

Marc Gris · Answer

took me quite a while actually sweat smile I may recall this incorrectly but the line amp position were actually not where the problem i e trailing whitespace was felt like a sql error near

Marc Gris · Answer

But as I said I never paid any attention to not having trailing whitespace and therefore am pretty sure I had plenty So I guess it s a pyyaml change may be

datajoely · Answer

remember whitespace may also be bad characters that are invisible like ` ` which one sometimes gets from copy and pasting

Juan Luis · Answer

last PyYAML release is from a couple of months ago thinking face so definitely not something that has changed recently

datajoely · Answer

it used to be a lot worse before this went in <https github com kedro org kedro pull 1419 files>

FlorianGD · Answer

I configure my IDE to remove trailing whitespaces on save it is really useful

Marc Gris · Answer

Thanks everyone for the comments suggestions slightly smiling face Cheers M