Textwrap dedent

November 8, 2022

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Remove leading whitespace from every line in text with the textwrap.dedent() function. The first example prints the leading white space in the string which is caused by the indentation of the function. The second example uses textwrap.dedent() to remove the leading white space.

from textwrap import dedent


def print_ex1():
    s = """
    This is a long line
    of words.
    """
    print(s)


def print_ex2():
    s = """
    This is a long line
    of words.
    """
    print(dedent(s))


>>> print_ex1()
    This is a long line
    of words.

>>> print_ex2()
This is a long line
of words.