Are line continuations needed?

[Josiah Carlson]

Graham Breed wrote:

>> 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:]
> 

What about Windows?  You'd need to use [2:].

I would also say that the trailing string slice is ugly.

  - Josiah