On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 3:19 AM Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 18:21, Mike Miller <python-ideas@mgmiller.net> wrote:
Anyone still interested in this?
It feels like a nice idea to me, when reading the proposals. However, in all of the code I've ever written in Python (and that's quite a lot...) I've never actually had a case where I this feature would have made a significant difference to the code I wrote. Maybe that says more about my coding style than about the usefulness of the feature, but personally I don't think it's worth it.
Paul
PS Although I could probably have said something similar about f-strings, and now I use them all the time. Language design is hard ;-)
Yeah, no kidding :-) If someone wants to push this further, I'm happy to assist with the mechanics of writing up a PEP. From my memory, the leading proposals were: 1) Creating a new type of string literal which compiles to a dedented form of multiline string 2a) Adding a str.dedent() method 2b) Creating a constant-folding peephole optimization for methods on immutable literals Either way, the definition of "dedent" would be identical to textwrap.dedent(), meaning that if 2a were to happen, that function could simply "return text.dedent()". Who wants to champion this proposal? ChrisA