[Python-ideas] triple-quoted strings and indendation

[Oleg Broytman]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:24:53AM +0200, Matthias Lehmann wrote:
> >    PEP 295 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0295/ was rejected in 2002.

> Oh, thanks for the link, I was almost sure that something like that
> was proposed before - sorry I didn't thoroughly search the PEPs
> beforehand.
> 
> I still think that indendation of triple-quoted strings is a wart of
> the language - a small one, but still a wart. But it's been
> discussed and rejected before - and probably with good reasons.

   My opinion is:
-- I don't think it's a wart;
-- If it's a wart it's quite small;
-- It's very easy to fix by calling dedent();
-- Fixing it by changing the language means to change the language for
   very little gain; changing the language must not be done lightly.

Oleg.
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