skaller wrote:
> It opens up the issue of what
> to do with string literals. In Python it is very painful,
> because the literals don't support nice block indent style.
>
> In this case .. attempts to make the code look nice
> turn out to cause a bug. AFAICR trailing whitespace
> is elided (because you can't see it). Thus
>
> """hello
> """
>
> will be 'hello\n' even if you put extra ' ' after hello.
> If you put
>
> """hello \
> """
>
> it adds the white space .. but removes the \n ... ;(
>
> Not very consistent..
There's been a library, textwrap, since python 2.3 to work around this:
import textwrap
def foo():
s = """\
hello hi ho
hee
la la la"""
print s
print '*' * 50
print textwrap.dedent(s)
foo()
which will print:
hello hi ho
hee
la la la
**************************************************
hello hi ho
hee
la la la
We could easily copy this in the String module.
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