Comment by drothlis

3 years ago

Thanks! Coincidentally one of the first articles I wrote for my blog was about compile-time checking of table/column names: https://david.rothlis.net/d/templates/

(Just something I was messing around with, not anything I ever used in production.)

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drothlis

simonw 3 years ago

Spotted this in the code:

    def _left_pad(text, indent="    "):
        """Maybe I can find a package in pypi for this?"""
        return "\n".join(indent + line for line in text.split('\n'))

You can use the textwrap module from the Python standard library for this:

    textwrap.indent('hello\nthis\n  is a demo', '    ')
    # '    hello\n    this\n      is a demo'

drothlis 3 years ago

Ha! I use `textwrap.dedent` all the time but didn't make the leap of logic to check for the existence of `indent`. :-)
I suspect this was a leftover from Python 2.7 days.