[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[David Townshend]

+1 for strings in unit tests, but not so useful for docstrings. But the
proposal was as a new string type, not necessarily docstrings. But maybe a
string method would be better:

>>> """
...    This
...    is
...    indented.""".deindent()
"""
This
is
indented"""

On Aug 19, 2011 2:55 PM, "Dag Odenhall" <dag.odenhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
>
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