Typesetting python docstrings

[Magnus Hult]

Hi,

When typesetting python programs, docstrings (a string occuring as the
first statement of a module, function, class or method) look bad.

This is because strings are (on my system at least) typeset in a
variable-width font.  Therefore, indentation of every line in the
string but the first looks wrong.

Thus, when typesetting the following program

def myfunction():
    """The purpose of this function is to point out
    an indentation problem."""
    pass

the result looks something like

def myfunction():
    """The purpose of this function is to point out
  an indentation problem."""
    pass

because the spaces in the string are not as wide as those in the code.

I run a2ps 4.10.4 with python sheet 1.1 on Solaris 9.

Thanks for a great program
Regards,
Magnus Hult