[Python-Dev] str.dedent

[Raymond Hettinger]

> The motivation
> is to be able to write multilined strings easily without damaging the
> visual indentation of the source code

That is somewhat misleading.  We already have that ability.  What is
being proposed is moving existing code to a different namespace.  So the
motivation is really something like:

   I want to write 
       s = s.dedent() 
   because it is too painful to write
       s = textwrap.dedent(s)



Raymond