Whitespace normalization:

      - Strip empty lines
      - Strip leading whitespace  in a line
      - Strip trailing whitespace in a line
      - Normalize line endings

def text_normalize(text):
    """
    Whitespace normalization:

      - Strip empty lines
      - Strip leading whitespace  in a line
      - Strip trailing whitespace in a line
      - Normalize line endings
    """
    # if not isinstance(text, str):
    if isinstance(text, bytes):
        # -- MAYBE: command.ouput => bytes, encoded stream output.
        text = codecs.decode(text)
    lines = [ line.strip()  for line in text.splitlines()  if line.strip() ]
    return "\n".join(lines)