It would radically change the meaning of every existing multi-line string. That is an enormous backwards-compatibility break. It might work as a __future__ import, though. On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 13:03 Marius Räsener <m.raesener@gmail.com> wrote:
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@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@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@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@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 probably due to the rather large changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)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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