String and function esthetics

[jean-claudeF]

I love the clear structure of Python.
One thing however hurts my feelings.

Example:

def test():
    s = """blahblah
blahblah
blahblah
"""
    print(s)

This is not beautiful.
For me the whole string definition should be indented.
Is there a way to do it more elegantly?

[robert-hh]

Only in a different way clumsy:

def test():
    s = "blahblah\n"\
        "blahblah\n"\
        "blahblah"
    print(s)

[andrewleech]

Yeah I personally agree it's pretty ugly like this.

Often I define my multiline strings at global context just to avoid this.

Alternatively:

def test():
    s = (
        "blahblah\n"
        "blahblah\n"
        "blahblah\n"
    )
    print(s)

[corranwebster]

In CPython you'd typically use the standard library textwrap.dedent for this sort of thing, so I was going to suggest mip-installing it and doing:

def test():
    s = dedent("""\
        blahblah
        blahblah
        blahblah
        """)
    print(s)

assuming you were willing to pay the runtime cost.

But apparently textwrap in micropython-lib has a bug: micropython/micropython-lib#318

That said, if it's constant do what @andrewleech suggested and make it a module-level string.

[jean-claudeF]

I use global variables now at module level, that seems to me the most elegant solution.
Like this:

CMD_LISTFILES = """import os
files = os.listdir()
for f in files:
    print(f)
"""