Are line continuations needed?

[Graham Breed]

> I think that you might find there wasn't any indentation to lose. Read the 
> point more carefully and you might see he has a valid concern. Consider 
> this (none of the lines are indented):
> 
> mystring = """\
> +---------------+
> |    '"         |
> +---------------+
> """
> 
> Without a line continuation there simply isn't any way to write this string 
> and still have the box characters line up neatly.

mystring = """
+---------------+
|    '"         |
+---------------+
"""[1:]