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

[SpaghettiToastBook .]

Maybe "dedent" should be replaced with "outdent", while keeping the
old names for compatibility.
 SpaghettiToastBook


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:13 AM, SpaghettiToastBook .
<spaghettitoastbook at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe "dedent" should be replaced with "outdent", while keeping the
> old names for compatibility.
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> nbv4 <nbvfour at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> "dedent" is a weird word, maybe "unindent" would be better?
>>
>> That ship has sailed, since the name “dedent” is already established
>> usage in Python (from ‘textwrap.deden in the standard libraryt’).
>>
>> A better term, by symmetry with “indent”, would have been “outdent”
>> <URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outdent>. But that would be
>> needlessly confusing since we already refer to it in Python by the
>> neologism “dedent”.
>>
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