On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > 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.
ITYM you mean "If only python were lisp". (macros, or even reader macros) James _______________________________________________ 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
