[Python-ideas] Dart like multi line strings identation

[Ryan Gonzalez]

I have to admit, regardless of how practical this is, it would surely get 
rid of a ton of textwrap.dedent calls all over the place...

On March 31, 2018 9:50:43 AM Marius Räsener <m.raesener at gmail.com> wrote:
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changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)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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