RFC PEP candidate: q'<delim>'quoted<delim> ?

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Wed Mar 13 16:55:11 EST 2002


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:24:40 -0500, "Clark C . Evans" <cce at clarkevans.com> wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:50:58AM +0000, Bengt Richter wrote:
>| Problem: How to put quotes around an arbitrary program text?
>
>I would suggest that this is done via indentation, like
>YAML.  With indentation you don't need to have an end 
>delimiter.
>
Unless you want the option of excluding the last EOL.
For line-oriented stuff it would be nice though, especially
for doc string readability. Actually a blank leading line
is not bad when you print a big doc string anyway...

Thanks for making me aware of YAML.

Regards,
Bengt Richter




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