I am trying to execute Python code dynamically. Hence I want to create a string representation of a piece of code that feeds into a exec function. However, I am having problem representing the code (with proper tab spaces) as a multiline string. The following shows the problem: multiline = """ foo bar """ print(multiline) output: foo bar This is expected behaviour. However, if I want to use implicit string continuation using () like so: multiline = ( "foo\n" "\tbar" ) print(multiline) output: foo bar The output seems to come with an extra tab space inserted, even though I used a single \t in the string. What am I missing here? Continue reading...
