[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[Bruce Leban]

This has been discussed a few times in the past.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-May/010207.html
triple-quoted
strings and indendation
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2010-November/008589.html
 Multi-line
strings that respect indentation

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm sure this will be shot down [1], but it annoys me often enough that I'm
> going to suggest it anyway. :-)
>
> A recent tweet of Raymond's reminded me how useful textwrap.dedent() is for
> dedenting triple quoted strings in code blocks:
>
> def function():
>     this_string = textwrap.dedent("""\
>         Here is some indented text.
>         that dedent will handle for us."""
>     )
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't work for docstrings as they must be string
> literals. It is compounded by the fact that you can't even create the
> docstring for a class and manually assign it later. (Why not? But that's
> another issue...)
>
> How about *another* string prefix for dedented strings:
>
> class Thing(object):
>     d"""
>     This text will be,
>     nicely dedented,
>     thank you very much.
>     """"
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
>
> [1] Because of the -100 rule as much as anything else, which applies doubly
> to features requiring new syntax
> https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2004/01/12/57985.aspx
>
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