[Python-ideas] Idea for new multi-line triple quote literal

[Ben Finney]

nbv4 <nbvfour at gmail.com> writes:

> The tripple quote string literal is a great feature, but there is one 
> problem. When you use them, it forces you to break out of you're current 
> indentation which maks code look ugly.

We have the ‘textwrap.dedent’ function in the standard library. Here is
a StackOverflow answer that shows how it is used for exactly the
situation you describe <URL:http://stackoverflow.com/a/2504454/70157>.

> I propose a new way to define a triple back quote that woks the same
> way regular triple quotes work, but instead does some simple parsing
> of the data within the quotes to preserve the flow of the code.

−1. This problem already has a standard-library solution, it is not
common enough to need a change to the language syntax.

If anything, a ‘dedent’ method on strings would be good. But not adding
more complexities to syntax for this, please.

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Ben Finney