[Python-ideas] Idea for new multi-line triple quote literal

[Ben Finney]

nbv4 <nbvfour at gmail.com> writes:

> "dedent" is a weird word, maybe "unindent" would be better?

That ship has sailed, since the name “dedent” is already established
usage in Python (from ‘textwrap.deden in the standard libraryt’).

A better term, by symmetry with “indent”, would have been “outdent”
<URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outdent>. But that would be
needlessly confusing since we already refer to it in Python by the
neologism “dedent”.

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Ben Finney