[Python-ideas] Dart like multi line strings identation

[Michel Desmoulin]

A "d" prefix to do textwrap.dedent is something I wished for a long time.

It's like the "f" one: we already can do it, be hell is it convenient to
have a shortcut.

This is especially if, like me, you take a lot of care in the error
messages you give to the user. I write a LOT of them, very long, very
descriptive, and I have to either import textwrap or play the
concatenation game.

Having a str.dedent() method would be nice, but the d prefix has the
huge advantage to be able to dedent on parsing, and hence be more
performant.

Le 31/03/2018 à 16:50, Marius Räsener a écrit :
> Hey List,
> 
> this is my very first approach to suggest a Python improvement I'd think
> worth discussing.
> 
> At some point, maybe with Dart 2.0 or a little earlier, Dart is now
> supporting multiline strings with "proper" identation (tried, but I
> can't find the according docs at the moment. probably due to the rather
> large changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)
> 
> What I have in mind is probably best described with an Example:
> 
> print("""
>     I am a
>     multiline
>     String.
>     """)
> 
> the closing quote defines the "margin indentation" - so in this example
> all lines would get reduces by their leading 4 spaces, resulting in a
> "clean" and unintended string.
> 
> anyways, if dart or not, doesn't matter - I like the Idea and I think
> python3.x could benefit from it. If that's possible at all :)
> 
> I could also imagine that this "indentation cleanup" only is applied if
> the last quotes are on their own line? Might be too complicated though,
> I can't estimated or understand this...
> 
> thx for reading,
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
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