Improve whitespace handling in astropy.unit.Unit FITS format string parsing? - #602

In [81]: u.Unit('m / s')
ERROR: ValueError: Expected integer (at char 5) in 'm / s' [astropy.units.format.generic]
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-81-ee9c94fa4475> in <module>()
----> 1 u.Unit('m / s')

/Users/deil/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/astropy/units/core.pyc in __call__(self, s, represents, format, register, doc, parse_strict)
    735             f = unit_format.get_format(format)
    736             try:
--> 737                 return f.parse(s)
    738             except ValueError as e:
    739                 if parse_strict == 'raise':

/Users/deil/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/astropy/units/format/generic.pyc in parse(self, s)
    247             except p.ParseException as e:
    248                 raise ValueError("{0} in {1!r}".format(
--> 249                     utils.cleanup_pyparsing_error(e), s))
    250 
    251     def _get_unit_name(self, unit):

ValueError: Expected integer (at char 5) in 'm / s'

In [82]: u.Unit('m/s')
Out[82]: Unit("m / (s)")

u.Unit('m /s') # space before is OK
u.Unit('m / s1') # space before and after are OK if second operator has an exponent
u.Unit('m / (s)') # spaces before and after are OK if second operator is in parentheses
u.Unit('m    /  s1') # multiple spaces are OK where one space is OK
u.Unit('m s') # space only means multiply, i.e. u.Unit('m*s')

u.Unit('m *s') # space before * not OK, was OK for /
u.Unit('m/ s') # space after / is not OK

In [113]: u.Unit('m / s', format='cds')
ERROR: ValueError: CDS unit must not contain whitespace [astropy.units.format.cds]