From 2f04ee5e48da9963a4911b0d32b0b555744f7ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Soroos <eric-github@soroos.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 21:29:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] whitespace tuple

---
 PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
index dd6be3106..be68d1b40 100644
--- a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
@@ -24,16 +24,7 @@ __version__ = "0.2"
 #
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-b_whitespace = string.whitespace.strip()
-try:
-    import locale
-    locale_lang, locale_enc = locale.getlocale()
-    if locale_enc is None:
-        locale_lang, locale_enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
-    b_whitespace = b_whitespace.decode(locale_enc)
-except:
-    pass
-b_whitespace = b_whitespace.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+b_whitespace = b'\x20\x09\x0a\x0b\x0c\x0d'
 
 MODES = {
     # standard