+1 for strings in unit tests, but not so useful for docstrings. But the proposal was as a new string type, not necessarily docstrings. But maybe a string method would be better:

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""" ... This ... is ... indented.""".deindent() """ This is indented"""

On Aug 19, 2011 2:55 PM, "Dag Odenhall" <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:

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The place I'm concerned about is the interactive interpreter, virtually

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only place I look at docstrings that isn't directly in the source code (or pre-processed by a doc tool - but I don't care about that).

Why don't you use bpython? It shows the docstring automatically as you're typing a class, without all the methods, and properly formatted.

Also if you're working with docstrings yourself there's inspect.getdoc which handles whitespace/indentation.

(But I still consider your proposal useful.)

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