@staticmethod<EOL><INDENT>def setDefaultWhitespaceChars( chars ):<DEDENT>
ParserElement.DEFAULT_WHITE_CHARS = chars<EOL>
r"""
        Overrides the default whitespace chars

        Example::

            # default whitespace chars are space, <TAB> and newline
            OneOrMore(Word(alphas)).parseString("abc def\nghi jkl")  # -> ['abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl']

            # change to just treat newline as significant
            ParserElement.setDefaultWhitespaceChars(" \t")
            OneOrMore(Word(alphas)).parseString("abc def\nghi jkl")  # -> ['abc', 'def']