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Wow, nice hack!

But I think \z should remove space characters even they are escaped. (So \z
processing must be run at raw string data.)

-- Martin

On 01/07/2018 06:01 AM, Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
> With \z, multiline strings are nicer, as they can be indented:
> 
> print("{\n\z
>     \x20   \"hello\": \"world\"\n\z
>     }")
> 
> Sadly, as that example shows, I need to use an "\x20".
> 
> It would be nice if "\ " (or, arguably, any other whitespace) was an explicit
> way to break a \z.
>