[Python-Dev] Triple-quoted strings and indentation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> A better proposal would probably be another string prefix that means  
> "dedent", but I'm still not sold.  doc processing software is clearly  
> going to have to know how to dedent anyway in order to support  
> existing code.

Agreed.

It is easy enough for any doc-string extraction tool
to do the dedenting based on the common whitespace prefix found
in lines 2 - n of the string. And that works on all sorts of string
literals.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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