How to Insert Raw Markdown into the Description Field in Python

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Original Slack Thread

I’m attempting to write some python code to automatically add contents to the description field of many datasets. However, whenever I add these strings, they are being stored as codeblocks in the description attribute. How do I insert raw markdown into the description field?

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Turns out this was an issue with indentation. When my strings include indents, they will be formatted as codeblocks. Wrapping it in a textwrap.dedent fixed it