OK. I have been chewing my bone. I hope not too much indigestion.

Who has a pointer for the antacid?

Getting base branch for PR ... origin/master
Getting the list of files that have been added/changed ... 72 files
Fixing Python file whitespace ... Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py", line 285, in <module>
    main()
  File "../git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py", line 253, in main
    normalize_whitespace(python_files)
  File "../git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py", line 35, in call_fxn
    result = fxn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "../git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py", line 149, in normalize_whitespace
    fixed = [path for path in file_paths if path.endswith('.py') and
  File "../git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py", line 150, in <listcomp>
    reindent.check(os.path.join(SRCDIR, path))]
  File "/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/reindent.py", line 138, in check
    if r.run():
  File "/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.8/Tools/scripts/reindent.py", line 203, in run
    for _token in tokens:
  File "/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.8/Lib/tokenize.py", line 521, in _tokenize
    raise TokenError("EOF in multi-line statement", (lnum, 0))
tokenize.TokenError: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (694, 0))
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

In other words - I have not changed the file 'complaining', but have changed many files. Likely, a new issue - however, I would like to move forward with this one.