[Python-ideas] Dart like multi line strings identation

[Marius Räsener]

Hey Robert

Not really, I don‘t think another string literal would be nice.

Also, to correct your example, it would have to look something like:

print(d“““
    I am
    a Line
    “““)

The Idea is to use the closing quotes to detect the indentation length so
to speak...



2018-03-31 17:48 GMT+02:00 Robert Vanden Eynde <robertve92 at gmail.com>:

> So yes, currently you just do :
>
> import textwrap
>
> print(textwrap.dedent("""
>     I am
>     A Line
> """))
>
> So you'd want a string litteral ?
>
> print(d"""
>     I am
>     A Line
> """)
>
> Le sam. 31 mars 2018 à 17:06, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> 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 changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)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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