[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[Dag Odenhall]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
> The place I'm concerned about is the interactive interpreter, virtually the
> only place I look at docstrings that isn't directly in the source code (or
> pre-processed by a doc tool - but I don't care about that).

Why don't you use bpython? It shows the docstring automatically as
you're typing a class, without all the methods, and properly formatted.

Also if you're working with docstrings yourself there's inspect.getdoc
which handles whitespace/indentation.

(But I still consider your proposal useful.)