Re: [Python-Dev] str.dedent

The motivation is to be able to write multilined strings easily without damaging the visual indentation of the source code

That is somewhat misleading. We already have that ability. What is being proposed is moving existing code to a different namespace. So the motivation is really something like: I want to write s = s.dedent() because it is too painful to write s = textwrap.dedent(s) Raymond