long string constants

[Oliver Fromme]

Mikael Olofsson <mikael at isy.liu.se> wrote:
 > On 12-Nov-2001 Holger Fuessler wrote:
 > >  Now my question. Is it possible to spread very long string constants
 > >  over multiple lines?.
 > 
 > """Do you 
 > mean 
 > like this?
 > """

Additionally, if you don't want to include newlines inside
your string (opposed to what the above suggestion does),
then you can simply break the string constants into multiple
parts and use line continuation, like this:

>>> s = "%s " \
...     "%s " \
...     "%s " % \
...     ("foo",
...      "bar",
...      "baz")
>>> s
'foo bar baz '

Note that you don't have to use explicit backslashes within
the parentheses of the tuple (they wouldn't hurt, though).

Regards
   Oliver

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