Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > So really, you should write it more like > > s = """this string continues > on the next line.""" > > which gets a bit ugly.
For this I have the following treatment <URL:http://stackoverflow.com/a/2504454/70157>: import textwrap s = textwrap.dedent("""\ this string continues on the next line. """) > So I propose adapting this convention to triply-quoted strings, as > follows: lines where the string literal continues must begin with the > *same* initial whitespace as the line where the string started. This > initial whitespace is stripped off before including the rest as part > of the string. Fortunately, the time machine has provided that in the standard library so you can choose to use it, even without waiting for a convention :-) -- \ “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” | `\ —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
