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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 17 02:19:24 CEST 2007

Jim Jewett wrote:

(1) Where does this preservation actually hurt?

It hurts because it places a burden on everyone every time they use a triple quoted string to do something about the indentation which is unwanted 99.999% of the time.

I use docstrings online -- and I typically do want them indented like the code.

I don't understand what you mean by that. Can you give an example where an auto-dedented docstring would give an undesirable result?

-- Greg

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