[Python-ideas] Dart like multi line strings identation

[Marius Räsener]

Hey David,

hm, that's actually a nice way to solve this too I guess, besides the
additional import and "string literal".

but as I answered to robert before (did it wrong with who to answer,
correct it just now so the mailing-list has the answer, too) was, that I
don't have a string literal in mind for this.

Like I don't see a reason why this couldn't be the default thing for all
string literals?

again, the Idea is just to use the closing quotes to determine the
indentation length ...

2018-03-31 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx>:

> I can currently write:
>
> from textwrap import dedent as d
> print(d("""
>     I am
>     A Line
> """))
>
> It doesn't feel like these hypothetical d-strings are with new syntax.
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:49 AM Robert Vanden Eynde <robertve92 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So yes, currently you just do :
>>
>> import textwrap
>>
>> print(textwrap.dedent("""
>>     I am
>>     A Line
>> """))
>>
>> So you'd want a string litteral ?
>>
>> print(d"""
>>     I am
>>     A Line
>> """)
>>
>> Le sam. 31 mars 2018 à 17:06, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> I have to admit, regardless of how practical this is, it would surely
>>> get rid of a ton of textwrap.dedent calls all over the place...
>>>
>>> On March 31, 2018 9:50:43 AM Marius Räsener <m.raesener at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey List,
>>>>
>>>> this is my very first approach to suggest a Python improvement I'd
>>>> think worth discussing.
>>>>
>>>> At some point, maybe with Dart 2.0 or a little earlier, Dart is now
>>>> supporting multiline strings with "proper" identation (tried, but I can't
>>>> find the according docs at the moment. probably due to the rather large
>>>> changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)
>>>>
>>>> What I have in mind is probably best described with an Example:
>>>>
>>>> print("""
>>>>     I am a
>>>>     multiline
>>>>     String.
>>>>     """)
>>>>
>>>> the closing quote defines the "margin indentation" - so in this example
>>>> all lines would get reduces by their leading 4 spaces, resulting in a
>>>> "clean" and unintended string.
>>>>
>>>> anyways, if dart or not, doesn't matter - I like the Idea and I think
>>>> python3.x could benefit from it. If that's possible at all :)
>>>>
>>>> I could also imagine that this "indentation cleanup" only is applied if
>>>> the last quotes are on their own line? Might be too complicated though, I
>>>> can't estimated or understand this...
>>>>
>>>> thx for reading,
>>>> Marius
>>>>
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