3 Ways to Clean Multiline Strings

Quick Tip: Use textwrap.dedent() for clean multiline strings

When working with multiline strings in Python, it's common to use triple-quoted strings. However, these can lead to unnecessary indentation in your code. For example, consider the following:

my_string = """
    This is a multiline string
    with multiple lines of text
    and unnecessary indentation"""

As you can see, the indentation inside the triple-quoted string is preserved, which can lead to inconsistent formatting. To avoid this, you can use the textwrap.dedent() function from the textwrap module:

python
import textwrap

my_string = textwrap.dedent("""
    This is

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