long lines, long string
John W. Baxter
jwbnews at scandaroon.com
Wed Jun 28 15:50:57 EDT 2000
In article <8jcudd$gdk$1 at slb7.atl.mindspring.net>, aahz at netcom.com
(Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> In article <j9tcj8.i0b.ln at iiab.soluma.de>,
> Holger M. Füßler <fuessler at solutec.de> wrote:
> >
> >Is there a possibility to put long lines of python-source-code in
> >multiple
> >lines (for better clarity)?
>
> myDict = {
> 'foo': 1,
> 'bar': 2,
> 'baz': 3
> }
>
> if myDict[xyzzy] == 'foo' \
> or myDict[xyzzy] == 'bar' \
> or myDict[xyzzy] == 'baz' :
>
> >How can I accomplish the same with strings?
>
> """
> This
> is
> a
> long
> string
> """
And, if you don't want the resulting returns, look into concatenation of
"adjacent" strings:
>>> a = "this "\
... "is "\
... "a "\
... "long "\
... "string. "
>>> a
'this is a long string. '
>>>
--John
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John W. Baxter Port Ludlow, WA USA jwbnews at scandaroon.com
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