On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 12:39 AM, Dan Strohl via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> This is of course not a problem if the *trailing* quote determines the >> indentation: >> >> a_multi_line_string = i''' >> Py- >> thon >> ''' > > I get the point, but it feels like it would be a pain to use, and it "Feels" > different from the other python indenting, which is something that I would > want to stay away from changing. > >> > In any case, Chris made a good point that I agree with. This doesn't >> > really need to be syntax at all, but could just be implemented as a >> > new string method. >> >> Depending on the details, not quite. A method wouldn't get the horizontal >> position of the leading quote. It could infer the position of the trailing >> quote, >> though. >> > > What about if we used Chris's approach, but added a parameter to the method > to handle the indent? > > For example, > > Test = """ > Hello, this is a > Multiline indented > String > """.outdent(4) > > > The outdent method could look like: > > string.outdent(size=None) > """ > :param size : The number of spaces to remove from the beginning of each > line in the string. Non space characters will not be removed. IF this is > None, the number of characters in the first line of the string will be used. > If this is an iterable, the numbers returned from each iteration will be used > for their respective lines. If there are more lines than iterations, the > last iteration will be used for subsequent lines. > > This solves the problem in a very pythonic way, while allowing the > flexibility to handle different needs. >
Sure! Though I'd drop the iterable option - YAGNI. Keep the basic API simple. Just an integer or None, where None's is defined in terms of the string itself. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
