[Python-ideas] Dart like multi line strings identation

[Marius Räsener]

Oh, ok... yeah didn‘t think of that.
Except I guess I‘d assume that so far multiline strings are either with
textwrap or ‚don‘t care‘? Maybe?

But sure, with that in mind it gets more tricky

Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa. 31. März 2018 um 19:49:

> It would radically change the meaning of every existing multi-line
> string.  That is an enormous backwards-compatibility break.  It might work
> as a __future__ import, though.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 13:03 Marius Räsener <m.raesener at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey David,
>>
>> hm, that's actually a nice way to solve this too I guess, besides the
>> additional import and "string literal".
>>
>> but as I answered to robert before (did it wrong with who to answer,
>> correct it just now so the mailing-list has the answer, too) was, that I
>> don't have a string literal in mind for this.
>>
>> Like I don't see a reason why this couldn't be the default thing for all
>> string literals?
>>
>> again, the Idea is just to use the closing quotes to determine the
>> indentation length ...
>>
>> 2018-03-31 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx>:
>>
>>> I can currently write:
>>>
>>> from textwrap import dedent as d
>>> print(d("""
>>>     I am
>>>     A Line
>>> """))
>>>
>>> It doesn't feel like these hypothetical d-strings are with new syntax.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:49 AM Robert Vanden Eynde <robertve92 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 changes related to dart 2.0 and outdated docs.)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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