Line continuation and comments

[Roel Schroeven]

Mark Bourne schreef op 24/02/2023 om 22:04:
> Personally, I don't particularly like the way you have to put multiline
> strings on the far left (rather than aligned with the rest of the scope)
> to avoid getting spaces at the beginning of each line.  I find it makes
> it more difficult to see where the scope of the class/method/etc.
> actually ends, especially if there are multiple such strings.  It's not
> too bad for strings defined at the module level (outer scope) though,
> and of course for docstrings the extra spaces at the beginning of each
> line don't matter.
A way around this is using textwrap.dedent() 
(https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/textwrap.html?highlight=dedent#textwrap.dedent). 
Example from the documentation:

     def test():
         # end first line with \ to avoid the empty line!
         s = '''\
         hello
           world
         '''
         print(repr(s))          # prints '    hello\n world\n    '
         print(repr(dedent(s)))  # prints 'hello\n  world\n'


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