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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 19 00:02:50 CEST 2007

Ron Adam wrote:

Can you give an example where an auto-dedented docstring would give an undesirable result? You didn't specify doc strings earlier, Just triple quoted strings in general.

Triple quoted strings in general is what I had in mind. I was replying to something that seemed to imply that it would cause trouble with docstrings, without being very clear about what the trouble was.

Dedenting triple quoted strings in general would cause some problems in (python 2.x) with existing gui interfaces that use triple quoted strings to define their text.

I conjecture that in all such cases, the existing code is already dedenting the string itself. I still haven't seen a real case where a piece of code actually needs the extra indentation.

-- Greg

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