@staticmethod
def conform_name(name):
    '\n        Checks to see whether a symbol name is valid by removing all whitespace from it\n        Removes spaces, \r, \n, \t\n        Throws exception if result is an empty string, otherwise it returns the string\n        '
    name = ''.join(name.split())
    if len(name) < 1:
        raise Exception('Invalid symbol name `' + name + '` ' +
            'Scriptax.SymbolScope@conform_name')
    else:
        return name
