Gary John Salerno wrote: >How do you make a single string span multiple lines, but also allow >yourself to indent the second (third, etc.) lines so that it lines up >where you want it, without causing the newlines and tabs or spaces to be >added to the string as well? > >Example (pretend this is all on one line): > >self.DTD = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML >4.01//EN"\n"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">\n\n' > >I want it to read: > >self.DTD = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"\n > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">\n\n''' > >Or anything like that, but I don't want the extra newline or tabs to be >a part of the string when it's printed. > >Thanks. > > The textwrap module has a function to do just the thing you want.
*dedent*( text) Remove any whitespace that can be uniformly removed from the left of every line in text. This is typically used to make triple-quoted strings line up with the left edge of screen/whatever, while still presenting it in the source code in indented form. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list