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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:16:02 +1000,
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a
écrit :
> On 1 Jul 2013 20:01, "Serhiy Storchaka"
> <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 01.07.13 04:47, Nick Coghlan написав(ла):
> >
> >> 4. I dedent and indent long strings more often than I capitalize,
> >> center, tab expand, or perform various other operations which
> >> already grace the str type as methods.
> >
> >
> > The str type already has many rarely used methods, so let's add a
> > couple
> more. It doesn't look good argument.
> 
> I almost left that point out, as I kinda feel the same way. OTOH, I
> want indent pretty much every time I write a script that invokes
> other command line tools, and I'm serious about the possibility of
> having the compiler implicitly dedent docstrings once the method
> support exists to make it practical.

I think dedent() is quite useful too. OTOH, I don't think there's much
point in indent() as a str method (except for consistency). Also,
indent() may want more options and knobs than dedent() has, and
therefore would be better implemented in pure Python.

Regards

Antoine.