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snick

Text manipulation gadgets for indentation

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Created: 2020-11-23 · Last Released: 2026-04-28 · Version: 3.2.0

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Handy gadgets for taming indented text

A small collection of practical utilities for working with indented strings and text formatting:

  • Dedent triple-quoted strings without giving up indented code
  • Build multi-line output line by line with Conjoiner
  • Format data structures like pprint, but with json.dumps-style indentation and trailing commas
  • Strip ANSI codes and stray whitespace from terminal output
  • Wrap and indent text blocks for logs and reports

Built on the Python standard library — nothing extra to install.

Quickstart

Requirements

  • Python 3.10 or greater

Installation

Install the latest release from PyPI:

pip install snick

Quick taste

import snick

message = snick.dedent(
    """
    The Force will be with you.
    Always.
    """
)
print(message)

Running this gives:

The Force will be with you.
Always.

To learn about all the features, see the documentation.

Try the demo

The fastest way to see snick in action is to run the interactive demo. No install required:

uvx --from=snick[demo] snick-demo

The demo walks through every feature, one function at a time. Each step shows the source code and its output, then asks whether to continue.