[Python-ideas] Re: the 'z' string escape

17 Jun 2020


      On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:09 AM Soni L. <fakedme+py@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)

or

nicest = \
"""foo
   bar"
   baz"""

-CHB


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