I've just begun playing with Python, and so far I like what I see. It's a very elegant language. But I've found something that's, well, a bit ugly. Maybe someone can point out to me where I'm wrong.
If you use triple quotes to define a string, then the newlines are implicitly included. This is a very nice feature. But if you're inside a function or statement, then you'll want the string to be positioned along that indentation. And the consequences of this is that the string will include those indentations. For example: def SomeFunction() if SomeCondition: MyString = """ The quick brown fox """ print MyString The output will be: The quick brown fox But what you really want is: The quick brown fox The way around it is to write the function thus: def SomeFunction() if SomeCondition: MyString = """ The quick brown fox """ print MyString But that's just ugly. It seems to me that the string should be interpreted with the edge along the indentation line, not from the start of the line. But that would probably create other problems. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list