On 2020-06-17 12:46 p.m., Christopher Barker wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:09 AM Soni L. <fakedme+py@gmail.com <mailto:fakedme%2Bpy@gmail.com>> wrote:
This also gives us two ways of doing indented strings (in Lua):
local ugly = "foo\n \z bar\n \z baz" local nicer = "foo\n\z \x20 bar\n\z \x20 baz"
I'm having a really hard time seeing why that is either more readable, or easier to type than:
nicest = ("foo" " bar" " baz" ) (my prefered way these days)
I think you missed some \n's here.
or
nicest = \ """foo bar" baz"""
this is ugly. what's wrong with textwrap.dedent? however, I bring up again the original use-case which has nothing to do with textwrap.dedent, or nested indentation. But consider this artificial example: foo = textwrap.dedent(""" This is the help page for foo, a command \z with the following subcommands: bar - A very useful subcommand of foo \z and probably the subcommand you'll \z be using the most. baz - A simple maintenance command \z that you may need to use sometimes. """) Currently you'd have to write it as: foo = ( "This is the help page for foo, a command " "with the following subcommands:\n" " bar - A very useful subcommand of foo " "and probably the subcommand you'll " "be using the most.\n" " baz - A simple maintenance command " "that you may need to use sometimes." ) or if you want it to look "nicer", and don't mind linters shouting at you: foo = ( "This is the help page for foo, a command " "with the following subcommands:\n" " bar - A very useful subcommand of foo " "and probably the subcommand you'll " "be using the most.\n" " baz - A simple maintenance command " "that you may need to use sometimes." ) And I think this sucks.
-CHB
-- Christopher Barker, PhD
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