Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > >> I disagree. Triple-quoted strings are exactly the same as other strings: >> they capture *exactly* what you put in them ... > > But that conflicts with the use of whitespace for indentation rules. Other > languages are freeform, and have strings that include whitespace as > significant. > > In short, if whitespace is significant outside a string, then it shouldn't > be significant inside. And vice versa.
I think the rule is that whitespace leading a statement is significant. Whitespace inside a statement isn't. For example, whitespace inside a pair of parentheses isn't significant: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> if True: ... print ( ... 'a b d c d') ... a b d c d >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
