Bengt Richter wrote:
I never liked any of the solutions that demand bracketing the string with
expression brackets,
but I just had an idea ;-)
Or for an even more twisted idea:
from textwrap import dedent
class _Dedent(type):
def __new__(cls, name, bases, dict):
if name == "*": # for bootstrapping
return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, dict)
return dedent(dict['__doc__'])
DedentedString = _Dedent("*", (), {})
#
# Usage example
#
class foo(DedentedString):
"""
This is a dedented (or perhaps demented?) string.
It spans multiple lines.
"""
print type(foo)
print foo
The output is:
<type 'str'>
This is a dedented (or perhaps demented?) string.
It spans multiple lines.
--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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