[Python-Dev] str.dedent

[Steven Bethard]

On 11/18/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Noam Raphael wrote:
> > I just wanted to add another use case: long messages. Consider those
> > lines from idlelib/run.py:133
> >
> >         msg = "IDLE's subprocess can't connect to %s:%d.  This may be due "\
> >               "to your personal firewall configuration.  It is safe to "\
> >               "allow this internal connection because no data is visible on "\
> >               "external ports." % address
> >         tkMessageBox.showerror("IDLE Subprocess Error", msg, parent=root)
>
> You are missing an important point here: There are intentionally no line
> breaks in this string; it must be a single line, or else showerror will
> break it in funny ways. So converting it to a multi-line string would
> break it, dedent or not.

Only if you didn't include newline escapes, e.g.::

    msg = textwrap.dedent('''\
        IDLE's subprocess can't connect to %s:%d.  This may be due \
        to your personal firewall configuration.  It is safe to \
        allow this internal connection because no data is visible on \
        external ports.''' % address)

STeVe
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