line continuations with backslash
Paul Rubin
phr-n2001 at nightsong.com
Fri Aug 24 22:23:38 EDT 2001
Is there a particular reason in Python why you can't continue a line with
a backslash in the middle of a literal, like in C?
For what I'm doing it would be useful to be able to split a numeric
literal like this:
a = 123\
456\
789L
The actual numbers I want to use are a few hundred digits, so
splitting them across several lines would be nice.
Is there another way to do this? I guess I could enter
a = long("123"+
"456"+
"789")
but that does an extra runtime conversation instead of just
compiling the literal into the .pyc file.
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