mdboom/astropy — comment on commit 6020e7f0e58654336fbd1998ebb6d7cd2230d1c0
File: astropy/io/vo/util.py line 596
By mdboom:

Ha. I simply didn't know about it. I borrowed this from matplotlib which predates Python 2.5 when a fixed `textwrap.dedent` was added to the stdlib. I'll tack on a subsequent commit to use the stdlib.