Ian Bicking wrote: > I think a better argument for this is that dedenting a literal string is > more of a syntactic operation than a functional one. You don't think > "oh, I bet I'll need to do some dedenting on line 200 of this module, I > better import textwrap".
And regardless of the need to import, there's a feeling that it's something that ought to be done at compile time, or even parse time. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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