[None][chore] add precommit hook to remove redundant tab and white space (#8534)

Signed-off-by: Xin He (SW-GPU) <200704525+xinhe-nv@users.noreply.github.com>

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ repos:
         files: ".*/auto_deploy/.*"
 -   repo: local
     hooks:
+    -   id: test lists format
+        name: Check for tabs and multiple spaces in test_lists txt files
+        entry: ./scripts/format_test_list.py
+        language: script
+        files: tests/integration/test_lists/.*\.txt$
     -   id: DCO check
         name: Checks the commit message for a developer certificate of origin signature
         entry: ./scripts/dco_check.py

scripts/format_test_list.py

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Normalize tabs and multiple spaces to single spaces in files."""
+import argparse
+import re
+import sys
+
+
+def normalize_whitespace(content: str) -> str:
+    """Remove leading whitespace, replace tabs and multiple spaces with single spaces."""
+    lines = content.splitlines(keepends=True)
+    normalized_lines = []
+
+    for line in lines:
+        # Remove leading whitespace and tabs
+        line = line.lstrip(' \t')
+        # Replace tabs with single space
+        line = line.replace('\t', ' ')
+        # Replace multiple spaces with single space
+        line = re.sub(r'  +', ' ', line)
+        normalized_lines.append(line)
+
+    return ''.join(normalized_lines)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description='Normalize tabs and multiple spaces to single spaces')
+    parser.add_argument('filenames', nargs='*', help='Filenames to fix')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    retval = 0
+    for filename in args.filenames:
+        with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            original_contents = f.read()
+
+        normalized_contents = normalize_whitespace(original_contents)
+
+        if original_contents != normalized_contents:
+            print(f'Fixing {filename}')
+            with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+                f.write(normalized_contents)
+            retval = 1
+
+    return retval
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())