[Python-Dev] Triple-quoted strings and indentation (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 17:13:50 CEST 2005

On 7/5/05, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:

I have written a patch that changes the way triple-quoted strings are scanned so that leading whitespace is ignored in much the same way that pep 257 handles it for docstrings. Largely this was for a learning experience in hacking the parser, but it would be very nice IMO if something of this sort could be implemented in a future version of Python.

I don't think so. It smells too much of DWIM, which is very unpythonic. EIBTI.

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