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

Andrew Durdin adurdin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 13:27:40 CEST 2005


On 7/7/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:

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

In what way? The scheme described is explicit, and consistently applied to all triple-quoted strings[*] -- although the rules are different to the current behaviour. On the other hand, my written proposal may not be clear or explicit, something I will attempt to remedy over the next few days.

[*] Whether it should apply also to normal strings with escaped newlines is not something I have yet considered.

Andrew



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