Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 7/5/05, Andrew Durdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have written a patch that changes the way triple-quoted strings are >> scanned so that leading whitespace is ignored in much the same way >> that pep 257 handles it for docstrings. Largely this was for a >> learning experience in hacking the parser, but it would be very nice >> IMO if something of this sort could be implemented in a future version >> of Python. > > I don't think so. It smells too much of DWIM, which is very unpythonic. EIBTI.
Another idea, which is much more conservative: textwrap.dedent is highly under- rated and hidden. Why not make it builtin or a string method? Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
