> > How about we instead just use the rules from PEP 257 so that there aren't two > different sets of multi-line string indentation rules to have to remember? > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/#handling-docstring-indentation >
I like that, better to be closer to the existing standards. One could then see this as an extension of the doc-strings. > Also, how about using a string prefix character instead of making quad-quote > meaningful? Apart from being hard to visually distinguish from triple-quote, > this would break existing triple-quote strings that happen to start with the > quote character, e.g ''''What?' she asked.''' > > I don't know if 'i' would be the right prefix character for this, but it's > unused > and is short for 'indented': > Or go with a different character (or set of characters) altogether... like $, \, ~, ^, < ? (good catch on it catching on ''''hello' I am not in this''', I forgot about that behavior) I'm not against a prefix character, just throwing out alternatives. (though, to me, the 'i' indicated int) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
