[Python-Dev] Multiline string constants, include in the standard library?

[Ville Vainio]

>     where stripIndent() has been defined as:
>
>     >>> def stripIndent( s ):
>     ...     indent = len(s) - len(s.lstrip())
>     ...     sLines = s.split('\n')
>     ...     resultLines = [ line[indent:] for line in sLines ]
>     ...     return ''.join( resultLines )


Something like this should really be available somewhere in the standard 
library (string module [yeah, predeprecation, I know], string method). 
Everybody needs this kind of functionality, and probably more often than 
many of the other string methods (title, swapcase come to mind).

-- Ville