In a checkout of Python 2.7 r76831, a large amount of files contain the
form feed character (\f, \x0C, octal \014)

$ grep --binary-files=without-match -P '\f' **/* | sort | uniq

build/scripts-2.7/smtpd.py:

Lib/base64.py:

Lib/email/base64mime.py:

Lib/email/charset.py:

Lib/email/encoders.py:

Lib/email/errors.py:

Lib/email/feedparser.py:

Lib/email/generator.py:

Lib/email/header.py:

Lib/email/__init__.py:

Lib/email/iterators.py:

Lib/email/message.py:

Lib/email/mime/audio.py:

Lib/email/mime/base.py:

Lib/email/mime/image.py:

Lib/email/mime/message.py:

Lib/email/mime/multipart.py:

Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py:

Lib/email/mime/text.py:

Lib/email/parser.py:

Lib/email/quoprimime.py:

Lib/email/test/test_email_codecs.py:

Lib/email/test/test_email_codecs_renamed.py:

Lib/email/test/test_email.py:

Lib/email/test/test_email_renamed.py:

Lib/email/test/test_email_torture.py:

Lib/email/utils.py:

Lib/smtpd.py:

Lib/test/test_base64.py:

Lib/test/test_isinstance.py:

Misc/python-mode.el:

Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c:

Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:

Modules/_io/bufferedio.c:

Modules/_io/_iomodule.c:

Modules/puremodule.c:

Modules/_tkinter.c:

Tools/audiopy/audiopy:

Tools/audiopy/README:

Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py:

Tools/i18n/pygettext.py:

Tools/pynche/ChipViewer.py:

Tools/pynche/ColorDB.py:

Tools/pynche/DetailsViewer.py:

Tools/pynche/Main.py:

Tools/pynche/pyColorChooser.py:

Tools/pynche/PyncheWidget.py:

Tools/pynche/README:

Tools/pynche/StripViewer.py:

Tools/pynche/Switchboard.py:

Tools/pynche/TextViewer.py:

Tools/pynche/TypeinViewer.py:

Tools/world/README:

Tools/world/world:

AFAIR, Barry likes these. Not sure exactly why ;-)

Emacs navigation command forward-page and backward-page.  Python treats
them as whitespace, so what's the problem? :)

This is also allowed by PEP8.