On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:03 am, Dan wrote:
> 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.
> [...]
> But that's just ugly.
Yeah, it's definitely a wart. So much so that recent Python
distributions include a function to fix it:
>>> from textwrap import dedent
>>> string_block = dedent("""
... This string will have the leading
... spaces removed so that it doesn't
... have to break up the indenting.
... """)
>>> string_block
"\nThis string will have the leading\nspaces removed so that it doesn't\nhave
to break up the indenting.\n"
>>> print string_block
This string will have the leading
spaces removed so that it doesn't
have to break up the indenting.
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