On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:50:38 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Hansen wrote: > >>>>> print textwrap.dedent(s).strip().replace('\n',' ') >> this is a multiline triple-quted string with indentation for nicer >> code formatting > >But I have some newlines that are already embedded in the string, and I >wouldn't want those replaced. >>> s = """ I want the following line- concatenated, but leave this line break alone. """ >>> print textwrap.dedent(s).strip().replace('-\n',' ') I want the following line concatenated, but leave this line break alone. >>> But I'd still recommend using parens and string concatentation. >>> s2 = ( "I want the following line " "concatentated, but leave this\n" "line break alone." ) >>> print s2 I want the following line concatentated, but leave this line break alone. Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list