Indented multi-line strings

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-05-31 16:44:10 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> I was also thinking that it could take the indentation from the first line,
> but that if you wanted the first line to have a larger indent than the
> remaining lines, you could replace the first space that you want to keep
> with a non-whitespace character and then pass that character to the method.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Test = """\
>      _   Hello, this is a
>       Multiline indented
>      String
>      """.outdent(padding='_')
> 
> Outdent so that the first line is flush to the margin:
> 
> _   Hello, this is a
>  Multiline indented
> String
> 
> The padding argument tells it to replace the initial '_':
> 
>     Hello, this is a
>  Multiline indented
> String

I would prefer to remove the padding, like this:

    Test = """
        |    Hello, this is a
        | Multiline indented
        |String
        """.outdent(padding='|')

Or write it like this?

    Test = """|    Hello, this is a
              | Multiline indented
              |String
              """.outdent(padding='|')

Hmm, the sign of Zorro! :-)

I'm starting to like outdent(), but that may be my TIMTOWTDIism
speaking.

        hp

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