not that anyone asked, but I"d only support: > 2a) Adding a str.dedent() method
and maybe: > 2b) Creating a constant-folding peephole optimization for methods on immutable literals and frankly, it's a much lighter lift to get approval than: 1) Creating a new type of string literal which compiles to a dedented form of multiline string Also -- more useful -- dedent() is helpful for non-literals as well. Other than docstrings, the case for literals is pretty small, and docstrings are already auto-cleaned up. > in all of the code I've ever written in Python (and that's quite a > > lot...) I've never actually had a case where I this feature would have > > made a significant difference to the code I wrote. exactly -- I do have one case -- but that's for an instructional exercise where we are keeping things simple -- in operational code that string would have been in a file, or database, or .... -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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