Re: [Python-Dev] str.dedent

Ian Bicking wrote:

I think a better argument for this is that dedenting a literal string is more of a syntactic operation than a functional one. You don't think "oh, I bet I'll need to do some dedenting on line 200 of this module, I better import textwrap".

And regardless of the need to import, there's a feeling that it's something that ought to be done at compile time, or even parse time. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+