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[–] Dragnmn@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It allows you to add internal linebreaks.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Downside is that it includes your indentation whitespace, though I doubt chatgpt would care about that, as I'd imagine it gets discarded when it's tokenized, but it's still good to keep in mind when using " " ".

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

dedent() can help with that.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a pretty clean looking solution. There are a few others as well, but yours seems better, and it's in the standard lib to boot!