Hello all,

I'm sure this will be shot down [1], but it annoys me often enough that I'm going to suggest it anyway. :-)

A recent tweet of Raymond's reminded me how useful textwrap.dedent() is for dedenting triple quoted strings in code blocks:

def function():
    this_string = textwrap.dedent("""\
        Here is some indented text.
        that dedent will handle for us."""
    )

Unfortunately that doesn't work for docstrings as they must be string literals. It is compounded by the fact that you can't even create the docstring for a class and manually assign it later. (Why not? But that's another issue...)

How about *another* string prefix for dedented strings:

class Thing(object):
    d"""
    This text will be,
    nicely dedented,
    thank you very much.
    """"

All the best,

Michael Foord

[1] Because of the -100 rule as much as anything else, which applies doubly to features requiring new syntax
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2004/01/12/57985.aspx

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