[Python-Dev] Triple-quoted strings and indentation

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/10/05, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think so. It smells too much of DWIM, which is very unpythonic. EIBTI.
> 
> In what way? The scheme described is explicit, and consistently
> applied to all triple-quoted strings[*] -- although the rules are
> different to the current behaviour. On the other hand, my written
> proposal may not be clear or explicit, something I will attempt to
> remedy over the next few days.

The scheme may be explicitly spelled out in the language reference,
but it is implicit to the human reader -- what you see is no longer
what you get.

> [*] Whether it should apply also to normal strings with escaped
> newlines is not something I have yet considered.

I recommend that you give it up. You ain't gonna convince me.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)