Gary Herron wrote: > 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 > >
But does this do anything to the newline character that gets added to the end of the first line? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list