gistfile1.txt

def myfunction(arg1, arg2):
    """
    The Docstring.
    """

    for x in range(500):
        print """This multiline string makes the code look ugly.
I wish there were some way to
write this string in such a way that looks better.
I could add spaces at the front of each line in this string,
but if I do that, my string is polluted with big swaths of space characters.
This function's docstring suffers from this problem.
The way I have the docstring formatted, the first character is a newline character.
In some cases, this could cause bugs.
"""

def myfunction2(arg1, arg2):
    ```
    This is a fancy multiline quote. Newlines and
    big swaths of 'indentation count' space/tab chars
    within strings are automatically removed.
    ```
    for x in range(500):
        print ```
        Now my code looks much better. The output of this
        function is as if you had written it in the same way
        its written in the code above, except with all newlines
        replaced with spaces and big swaths of spaces removed.
        ```


>>> myfunction2(1, 2):
Now my code looks much better. The output of this function is as if you had written it in the same way its written in the code above, except with all newlines replaced with spaces and big swaths of spaces removed.