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

[Marco Buttu]

On 07/13/2013 11:40 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>     I use Python since almost 7 years, and I discovered
>     textwrap.dedent() right now, by following this thread.
>     So in my case if yesterday I had seen there was a method
>     str.dedent(), I should have looked at the
>     documentation to know its meaning, but if I had seen
>     str.unindent(), I shouldn't have looked at the doc at all,
>     because the meaning appears to me very clear.
>     Maybe this comes either from my poor English or from my lacks in
>     Python (or both...), but maybe not, because
>     looking for "unindent indentation" , "dedent indentation" or
>     "deindent indentation" on Google, we can see people
>     use the word "unindent" and not dedent or deindent.
>
>     + 1 for unindent()
>
>     http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unindent
>
>
> Interestingly dedent has an entry on wiktionary, with a note that its 
> primary use is Python:
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dedent
>
> So whilst the meaning is obvious to native speakers, it can hardly be 
> said to be a term in common usage. (The wiktionary entry suggests it 
> is a synonym for "outdent".)
>
> Michael

And by the way, Python itself prefers to use unindent:

     >>> def foo():
     ...     """foo"""
     ...    pass
       File "<stdin>", line 3
         pass
            ^
     IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level

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