[Python-ideas] triple-quoted strings and indendation

[Bruce Leban]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:
>
> Wild idea: make the unary + operator on strings do
> textwrap.dedent() on them.
>
>
Wouldn't the unary - operator make more sense since it's removing spaces?

But I would prefer that it use a slightly friendlier form of dedent:

def dedent_for_literal(s):
if s and s[0] == '\n':
    s = s[1:]
 if s and s[-1] == '\n':
    s = s[:-1]
return textwrap.dedent(s)

That said, is this such a wart on the language that it's worth changing?

--- Bruce
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