[Python-Dev] Triple-quoted strings and indentation

[Josiah Carlson]

Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/11/05, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> >
> > You are wrong.  Current string literals are explicit.  They are what you
> > type.
> 
> No they are not:

Apparently my disclaimer of "except in the case of the decades-old
string escapes that were inherited from C, as well as unicode and 'raw'
strings" didn't make it into the final draft of that email.

It is not as though you are taking something that used to be invalid and
making it valid, you are taking something that used to mean X and making
it mean Y.  Your proposed change /will/ cause incompatibility for some
unknown number of modules which rely on the indentation of triple quoted
strings. You should realize that people get angry when their APIs change
the meaning of f(x), and you are asking for the language to do that.
Have you a guess as to why you are getting resistance?


 - Josiah