[Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Mike Klaas <mike.klaas at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 5/4/07, Baptiste Carvello <baptiste13 at altern.org> wrote:
> 
> > maybe we could have a "dedent" literal that would remove the first newline and
> > all indentation so that you can just write:
> >
> > call_something( d'''
> >                  first part
> >                  second line
> >                  third line
> >                  ''' )
> 
>  Surely
> 
>  from textwrap import dedent as d
> 
>  is close enough?

Apart from it happening at run time rather than compile time.

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