Trying to write comments after escaping newline

[Diez B. Roggisch]

p brian wrote:

> mystring = "hello " + someVariable + \
>                  "multiple lines 4 clarity" + \
>                  someothervariable
> 
> The above works , but if I add comments
> 
> mystring = "hello " + someVariable + \     #comment
>                  "multiple lines 4 clarity" + \      #comment
>                  someothervariable                    #comment
> 
> it stops working because instead of escaping a newline I am now just
> escaping a space or tab.
> Is there some clever thing i have missed?

To make line continuation work, the newline at the end of an line has to be
escaped using an \ - and putting your comment there makes this exactly what
you already observed: a space or tab escape instead of the newline.

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch