Specify string with uniform indentation ignored

[tobiah]

Like a docstring, I would like to specify a string such as:

def thing:

string = """
function otherlang(){
doit()
}
"""

And have the string end up actually being defined as:

"""
function otherlang(){
doit()
}
"""

Is there a built in way to do this? I don't much
care for:

string = "function otherlang(){"
string += " doit()"
string += "}"

Thanks,

Tobiah

 

[sjdevnull]

Is there a built in way to do this? I don't much
care for:

string = "function otherlang(){"
string += " doit()"
string += "}"

That can be somewhat simplified to:
string = "function otherlang(){"\
" doit()"\
"}"
It's not exactly what you wanted, I know.

 

[Sam Pointon]

Like a docstring, I would like to specify a string such as:

def thing:

string = """
function otherlang(){
doit()
}
"""

And have the string end up actually being defined as:

"""
function otherlang(){
doit()
}
"""

Is there a built in way to do this? I don't much
care for:

string = "function otherlang(){"
string += " doit()"
string += "}"

textwrap.dedent ought to do exactly what you want.

--Sam

 

[tobiah]

That would be it. Thanks.

textwrap.dedent ought to do exactly what you want.

--Sam