Ben Finney wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: >>>> doc = """ >>>> <?xml version="1.0"?> >>> It's not allowed to have a newline before the <?xml ...> >>> >>> Put it on the line above, and things will work. >>> >> If you don't think that looks pretty enough just escape the first >> newline in the string constant to have the parser ignore it: > > Quite apart from a human thinking it's pretty or not pretty, it's *not > valid XML* if the XML declaration isn't immediately at the start of > the document <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd>. Many XML > parsers will (correctly) reject such a document. > >> doc = """\ >> <?xml version="1.0"?> > > This is fine. > Sure. The only difference in "prettiness" I was referring to was the difference betwee
doc = """<?xml ... <stuff on the left-hand margin> ... and doc = """\ <?xml ... <stuff on the left-hand margin> ... In other words, Python source-code prettiness. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
