Are line continuations needed?

[Peter Maas]

Russell Wallace wrote:
> Python lets you continue a single logical line across more than one
> physical line, either by putting a \ at the end or letting it happen
> automatically with an incomplete infix operator.
> 
> I'm wondering how often is this feature needed? Would there be any
> problems if it weren't part of the language?

Just had this example:

d = { 'key1' : 'A very very long string of several hundred '\
           'characters. I could use a multi-line string but '\
           'then either left white space would be part of the '\
           'string or I would have to align it at column 0 '\
           '(ugly). I could embed it into a pair of brackets '\
           'but I see no advantage over \\. Finally I could '\
           'put this string on a single line (also ugly and hard '\
           'to read).'
       ...
     }


Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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