On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:23:04AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: > Though now that you mention is, I really dont like the \z idea -- I just > don't see the point. But a simiple way to call (and pre-process detent > would be nice: > > nicest = d"""foo > bar > baz""" > > I believe that's been proposed on this lists before -- not sure if it > petered out, or was rejected.
There's an enhancement on b.p.o to make dedent a string method: https://bugs.python.org/issue36906 Aside from being more convenient to use, it would then allow the peep-hole optimizer to apply the text dedent at compile-time. At the moment \z resolves to a literal backslash followed by a z. So this is a backwards-compatibility breaking change. # Python 3.8 py> print("abcd\z xy") <stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \z abcd\z xy As you can tell from the SyntaxWarning, there is a plan to eventually make unrecognised escapes an error. Once that occurs, we can start proposing new escapes, but until then, I think any proposal for a new escape sequence is dead in the water. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7NYNP4PR3JFB3MQ5GQEF22KSLKBXLWHB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
