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copied!<p>I'm trying to parse some code with AST, but I'm having an issue because of backslash continuation character.</p> <p>When I have a continuation character <strong>\</strong>, textwrap will not manage to dedent the code, I would like to know how to get rid of it.</p> <pre><code>code = """ def foo(): message = "This is a very long message that will probably need to wrap at the end of the line!\n \ And it actually did!" """ import textwrap print textwrap.dedent(code) import ast ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code)) </code></pre> <p>I'm adding more details to clarify the question:</p> <p>I have a module nemo.py with the following content:</p> <pre><code>class Foo(object): def bar(self): message = "This is a very long message that will probably need to wrap at the end of the line!\n \ And it actually did!" </code></pre> <p>and the main module trying to parse the code:</p> <pre><code>import ast import nemo import inspect import textwrap code = str().join(inspect.getsourcelines(nemo.Foo.bar)[0]) ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code)) </code></pre> <p>And the traceback:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/kelsolaar/Documents/Development/Research/_BI.py", line 7, in <module> ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code)) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 37, in parse return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST) File "<unknown>", line 1 def bar(self): ^ IndentationError: unexpected indent </code></pre>

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