[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 23:33:26 CEST 2011
Hello all,
I'm sure this will be shot down [1], but it annoys me often enough that I'm
going to suggest it anyway. :-)
A recent tweet of Raymond's reminded me how useful textwrap.dedent() is for
dedenting triple quoted strings in code blocks:
def function():
this_string = textwrap.dedent("""\
Here is some indented text.
that dedent will handle for us."""
)
Unfortunately that doesn't work for docstrings as they must be string
literals. It is compounded by the fact that you can't even create the
docstring for a class and manually assign it later. (Why not? But that's
another issue...)
How about *another* string prefix for dedented strings:
class Thing(object):
d"""
This text will be,
nicely dedented,
thank you very much.
""""
All the best,
Michael Foord
[1] Because of the -100 rule as much as anything else, which applies doubly
to features requiring new syntax
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2004/01/12/57985.aspx
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