[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 18:11:01 CEST 2007

On 4/12/07, Neil Toronto <ntoronto at cs.byu.edu> wrote:

Jan Kanis wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:54:11 +0200, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Indeed, I don't really like this syntax. I do like if there'd be a way to > spell 'multiline string with indentation chopped off'.

Most of the time, the extra indents are OK. And if they aren't, it is usually OK to start the string with a blank line. (So everything is aligned to left, at least.)

Would textwrap.dedent do what you wanted (if it were added to all)? Should it have a mode to skip the first line? Should there be a TextWrapper expose it somehow? (My thought would be to optionally call it from within _munge_whitespace.)

a = """Some text. Some intentionally indented text."""

How often do people rely on those tabs or spaces being preserved?

For doctests, mainly, so a consistent change would be OK ... but triple quoted strings are supposed to be almost exactly WYSIWYG.

-jJ

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