On 1 July 2013 11:09, Steven D'Aprano
but in either case, I think the choice of --- as delimiter is ugly and arbitrary, and very likely is ambiguous (currently, x = ---1 is legal code). Similar suggestions to this have been made many times before, you should search the archives:
I'm still partial to the idea of offering textwrap.indent() and textwrap.dedent() as string methods. 1. You could add a ".dedent()" at the end of a triple quoted string for this kind of problem. For a lot of code, the runtime cost isn't an issue. 2. A JIT would definitely be able to avoid recalculating the result every time 3. Even CPython may eventually gain constant folding for that kind of method applied directly to a string literal 4. I dedent and indent long strings more often than I capitalize, center, tab expand, or perform various other operations which already grace the str type as methods. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia