Hot to split string literals that will across two or more lines ?

[Xiao Jianfeng]

jmdeschamps at gmail.com wrote:

>Xiao Jianfeng wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I need to print a long sting, which is two long so it must expand two
>>lines.
>>I know that we can use backslash(\) to explicitly join two lines into a
>>logical line,
>>but this doesn't work for string literals :(
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>>my code:
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>>if sth.:
>>print "a string whcih is very very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo\
>>oooooooooooooooooooong."
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>If I don't break the line, it will be very ugly, if I break the
>>line,....but how ?
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>>Thanks in advance!
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>in python there are triple quoted strings:
>strVar = """this the beginning
>and this is the end """
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 Thanks.
 But even I use triple quoted strings instead , there is still extra 
space before "and this...".
 The string I want to print is in a "if" statement, so it is not at the 
beginning of the line.

>>xiaojf
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