Just as to your example, you can try `textwrap.dedent`
At 2019-03-26 00:32:26, "Mikhail V" <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >Not a proposal yet, but some thoughts: >I think it would help in a longer perspective if a user could >include a directive in the header of the source code file that >defines indentation character(s) for this source file. So this >source would be parsed strictly by this char (or sequence). > >E.g.: > > # indent "\t" > ... > >Would force the Python parser to use exactly 1 tab for 1 indent level. > > # indent " " > ... > >Would accordingly force the parser to use exactly 4 spaces for >1 indent level. > >Frankly I don't have much proof in hand for that will be a good >addition, but intuitively I suppose it would help with some possible >future features and in general, ease the development of source >processors. > >One possible example: if a potential future feature would require >a statement, and moreover require it to be indentation-aware? >Lets take e.g. a multi-line string: > > s = """ > Hello > world > """ > print (s) > > >>> > > Hello > world > > >Here it is not so intuitive (unless you already know) how the string would >be parsed (given that Python blocks are actually indentation-based). >So if one would want to try introduce a new indent-aware string type and >look into possible parsing disambiguation scenarios - it will be not an >easy task. >E.g. say one proposes a syntax for auto-unindented string block: > > s = !!! > Hello > world > print (s) > >>> > Hello > world > >(no leading newline, no leading indent in resulting string, which is a bit more >expected result IMO). > >Then it seems one can define the parsing rule unambiguously _only_ >if one has a strictly defined character sequence for the indent level >(e.g. 1 tab or 4 spaces, but not both). >Thus it seems such a directive would be a prerequisite for such feature. > >And in general, I think it could help to make automatic conversions from one >type of indentation to other easier. > > > >Mikhail >_______________________________________________ >Python-ideas mailing list >Python-ideas@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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