Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
+1 There's a long thread on something similar here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-March/049564.html Carrying over into the following month: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-April/049582.html Here's an even older thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2010-November/008589.html In the more recent thread, I suggested that we give strings a dedent method. When called on a literal, the keyhole optimizer may do the dedent at compile time. Whether it does or not is a "quality of implementation" factor. The idea is to avoid the combinational explosion of yet another string prefix: urd'...' # unicode raw string dedent while still making string dedents easily discoverable, and with a sufficiently good interpreter, string literals will be dedented at compile time avoiding any runtime cost: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-March/049578.html ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36906> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
