Line continuation for a string > 79 characters

[Paul Brian]

Berthold,

thank you, but my main aim was to make it quick and easy for me to cut and
paste long file names in and out of scripts (I know I know, but I am doing a
lot of quick and dirty exploration)

So dividing up into '/somefile' and '/someotherfile' is more work than just
having messy files
I like the / v \\ idea - I'll try it.

Overall I think I am stuck with the \ added onto the end of my lines. Oh
well.

cheers

Paul Brian

Berthold Höllmann <hoel at germanlloyd.org> wrote in message
news:seg05fwzwz.fsf at germanlloyd.org...
"Paul Brian" <paul1brian at yahoo.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> probably a foolish question, but how do I break up a string that has more
> than 79 characters so it looks pretty / adheres to style guides?
> eg
>
> filename = '\\myroot\\somefolder...arbitrarty
> path...\\yetanotherfolder\\foo.txt'
>
> I can do this
>
> filename = '\\myroot\\somefolder\\someotherfolder\
> \\anotherfolder\\stillanotherfolder\
> \\yetanotherfolder\\foo.txt'

First using slashes instead of backsleashes saves some characters:

filename = '/myroot/somefolder/someotherfolder\
/anotherfolder/stillanotherfolder\
/yetanotherfolder/foo.txt'

and then you could write

filename = ('/myroot'
            '/somefolder'
            '/someotherfolder'
            '/anotherfolder'
            '/stillanotherfolder'
            '/yetanotherfolder'
            '/foo.txt')

or

import os, os.path
filename = os.sep + os.path.join('myroot',
             'somefolder',
             'someotherfolder',
             'anotherfolder',
             'stillanotherfolder',
             'yetanotherfolder',
             'foo.txt')

Greetings

Berthold

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