[Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed May 2 19:00:01 CEST 2007

On 5/2/07, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

Implicit string concatenation is massively useful for creating long strings in a readable way though:

callsomething("first part\n" "second line\n" "third line\n") I find it an elegant way of building strings and would be sad to see it go. Adding trailing '+' signs is ugly.

You'll still have textwrap.dedent::

call_something(dedent('''\
    first part
    second line
    third line
    '''))

And using textwrap.dedent, you don't have to remember to add the \n at the end of every line.

STeVe

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