snick

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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

Install the latest release from PyPI:

pip install snick

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.

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.

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution for snick 3.2.0
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Table of built distributions (wheels) for snick 3.2.0
File	Interpreter	ABI	Platform	Reset
snick-3.2.0-py3-none-any.whl 17.9 kB Apr 28, 2026	Python 3	none	any	Details

Total release size: 30.3 kB

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