I have the following code:
def bear_room(): print("""There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? """) And it returns the following:
There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? Can anyone advise how I can get rid of the indentation on lines 2, 3, and 4?
Please check this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2504457/1869597
One of your options is to use implicit concatenation:
def bear_room(): print( "There is a bear here\n" "The bear has a bunch of honey\n" "The fat bear is in front of another door\n" "How are you going to move the bear?" ) 
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\n should be added at the end of each line. I edited the answer.If you can't modify that string literal (for example, it's defined outside of your code), use inspect.cleandoc or equivalent:
In [2]: import inspect In [3]: s = inspect.cleandoc("""There is a bear here ...: The bear has a bunch of honey ...: The fat bear is in front of another door ...: How are you going to move the bear? ...: """) In [4]: print(s) There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? If you can modify it, it's much easier to remove leading spaces manually:
def bear_room(): print("""There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? """) or use implicit string literal concatenation:
def bear_room(): print('There is a bear here\n' 'The bear has a bunch of honey\n' 'The fat bear is in front of another door\n' 'How are you going to move the bear?\n') This option will produce expected results if you end strings with newline characters (\n).
One can use the dedent function. The following solution has the 3 advantages
\n character at the end of each line, the text can directly be copied from extern source,The function looks like this:
from textwrap import dedent dedentString = lambda s : dedent(s[1:])[:-1] def bear_room(): s=""" There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? """ print("Start of string : ") print(dedentString(s)) print("End of string") bear_room() The result is :
Start of string : There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear? End of string 
dedunt(s[1:])[:-1] you can use dedunt(s).strip()In your original code, after the first line, there is indentation - the indentation inside the triple quoted string is whitespace. So you need to remove those.
The following works:
def bear_room(): print("""There is a bear here The bear has a bunch of honey The fat bear is in front of another door How are you going to move the bear?""") bear_room() 
