Are line continuations needed?

[Peter Maas]

Peter Otten wrote:
>>d = { 'key1' : 'A very very long string of several hundred '\
>>           'characters. I could use a multi-line string but '\
[...]
>>>>d = {1: "Hi Peter, "
> 
> ...         "what do you "
> ...         "think of this?"}

You got me :) I know implicit line continuation but thought that
it applies only to cases where the strings are direct elements of
the bracket like in ["s1", "s2"]. OK, then my example should read

s = 'A very very long string of several hundred '\
     'characters. I could use a multi-line string but '\
[...]

If there are more than three lines you will type less with a
pair of brackets.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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