from textwrap import dedent
dedent("""\
this
is a
multi-line
string.""")
will do what you want
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If triple-quoted strings had the Python-nature, then they would take
> indentation into account. Thus:
>
> """this
> is a
> multi-line
> string."""
>
> would be equivalent to
>
> "this\n is a\n multi-line\nstring."
>
> and not
>
> "this\n is a\n multi-line\n string."
>
> The rule would be: the exact same whitespace characters at the beginning of
> the line on which the triple-quoted string starts must also occur at the
> start of the lines on which the string continues; these are stripped off
> and not included in the string contents. Any additional whitespace is of
> course part of the string.
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