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

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 00:41:02 CEST 2005

On 7/10/05, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

The scheme may be explicitly spelled out in the language reference, but it is implicit to the human reader -- what you see is no longer what you get.

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

I recommend that you give it up. You ain't gonna convince me.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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