In many topics on this forum, users are posting code as mere text. On both the Discourse web interface and email notifications, this mangles the indentation. Steven D’Aprano, Cameron Simpson, I and others find ourselves explaining how to use the Markdown-like syntax (with three backticks) somewhat o…

In many topics on this forum, users are posting code as mere text. On both the Discourse web interface and email notifications, this mangles the indentation. Steven D’Aprano, Cameron Simpson, I and others find ourselves explaining how to use the Markdown-like syntax (with three backticks) somew…

There is also the “indent with four spaces” syntax. Markdown again, and far more natural, if the poster can indent their paste. I post from email using a real editor, so this is easy for me. I don’t think that is easy in the web interface. Yeah, the difficulty of doing this in the web interfac…

Did you want those four backticks? Well, what do you see exactly? What I wrote is exactly: [four backticks] [three backticks] [Someone please …] [three backticks] [four backticks] That was in order to make the code show up surrounded by three backticks in a code block (so four backticks we…

Okay, @ambv , could you take a minute to edit the pinned post? Thanks in advance! As to the code example, maybe as simple as import spam in order not to distract the reader :slight_smile:

Something like this? [image] About the Python Help category Python Help General help/discussion forum for the Python programming language. All welcome. Please format your pasted code using Markdown backticks like this: ```python # YOUR CODE GOES HERE if me.i…

Worth noting that you can also use <pre><code> tags to wrap source, which is useful when you want to embed other HTML markup inside it. I often do that… if bold_line in [my, many, immediate, desires, include, a, bold_line]: print("Code wrapped in HTML tags") (There are <b></b> tags wrapped arou…

You can escape the markdown control characters with backslash: ```python <code here> ``` The raw text looks like this: \```python <code here> \``` [image] Jean Abou Samra: That was in order to make the code show up surrounded by three backticks in a code block (so four backticks were nee…

[image] Leland Parker: You can escape the markdown control characters with backslash: ```python <code here> ``` That doesn’t get formatted as a code block, though — which means it’s not monospaced, it’ll be subject to word-wrapping, and other differences. It’s not an equivalent representat…

By FeRD (Frank Dana) via Discussions on Python.org at 23Aug2022 23:05: [image] Leland Parker: You can escape the markdown control characters with backslash: ```python <code here> ``` That doesn’t get formatted as a code block, though — which means it’s not monospaced, it’ll be subject t…

Explaining users how to format their code examples

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ambv (Łukasz Langa) March 3, 2021, 11:08pm 6

Something like this?