>From the sound of it, it's probably not worth endowing every string object with this method and hardcoding its implementation forever in C code. There are so many corner cases and variations on the functionality of "dedenting" a block that it's better to keep it as Python source code. On 9/14/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> wrote: > Hi, >> some time ago, I proposed a string method "dedent" (which currently is in the > textwrap module). The RFE is at http://python.org/sf/1237680. >> Any opinions? If I don't get positive comments, I'll reject it. >> Reinhold -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)