Be gentle with me....
Preston Landers
prestonlanders at my-deja.com
Sun Dec 5 22:53:57 EST 1999
Interesting. I had no idea that this was a valid construct:
>>> foo = "x" "y" "z"
>>> print foo
'xyz'
thanks for the informative post. You're right about the ugly string,
mine was a bad example.
learning-something-new-every-dayly-yours,
---Preston
In article <82aj7d$2dl9$2 at hub.org>,
xxx at NO-MAIL wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:19:04 GMT, Preston Landers wrote:
> >> want to continue a line of code over multiple physical lines?
> >
> >x = "This is a \
> > line of code \
> > spanning multiple \
> > lines"
>
> Although the original poster asked about code spanning lines, and the
> above example, while in a string, demonstrates the concept, i want to
> point out that the above string will produce...
>
> "This is a line of code spanning multiple lines"
>
> (For that ugly effect you might as well use multi-line quotes...
>
> x = """This is a
> line of code
> spanning multiple
> lines"""
>
> )
>
> However, to demonstrate the concept of multi-line code AND keep the
> spacing nice in our string, this works best...
>
> x = "This is a " \
> "line of code " \
> "spanning multiple " \
> "lines"
>
>
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