Python's longstring facility is very useful, but unhappily breaks
indentation. I find myself writing code like
msg = ('From: %s\r\n'
+ 'To: %s\r\n'
+ 'Subject: Host failure report for %s\r\n'
+ 'Date: %s\r\n'
+ '\r\n'
+ '%s\r\n') % (fr, ', '.join(to), host, time.ctime(), err)
mail.sendmail(fr, to, msg)
instead of
msg = ('''From: %s
To: %s
Subject: Host failure report for %s
Date: %s
%s
''') % (fr, ', '.join(to), host, time.ctime(), err)
mail.sendmail(fr, to, msg)
while wishing for a
msg = i'''From: %s
To: %s\r\n'
Subject: Host failure report for %s
Date: %s
%s
''' % (fr, ', '.join(to), host, time.ctime(), err)
mail.sendmail(fr, to, msg.replace('\n', '\r\n'))
isn't it so much prettier?
(((an indented longstring, i''' ... ''' behaves like a regular
longstring except that indentation on the lines following the beginning
of the longstring is stripped up to the first character position of the
longstring on the first line. non-blanks before that character position
are a syntax error)))
Avi
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