[Python-ideas] the 'z' string escape

Soni L. writes:

so I propose a \z string escape which lets me write the above as shown below:

                """switches to toml config format. the old 'repos' \z                 table is preserved as 'repos_old'"""

We already have that, if you don't care about left-alignment:

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"""123456789\ ... abcdefghi""" '123456789abcdefghi'

So '\z' would only give us removal of indentation whitespace from the string. Too much magic, and it has the same problem that trailing '\' has: most people will have to intentionally look for it to see it (though it's easier to spot than trailing '\' for me). That's a -1 for me. Steve