What is the best way to print the usage string ?

[Tony Nelson]

In article <1154625685.027648.133500 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
 "Simon Forman" <rogue_pedro at yahoo.com> wrote:
 ...
> Python also concatenates adjacent strings, but the "real" newlines
> between your strings will need to be escaped (otherwise, because the
> newlines are statement separators, you will have one print statement
> followed by string literals with the wrong indentation.)
> 
> print "Usage: blah blah blah\n" \
>       "Some more lines in the usage text\n" \
>       "Some more lines here too."
> 
> (Note that the final string literal newline is not needed since print
> will add one of it's own.)

One can also use parentheses:

print ( "Usage: blah blah blah\n"
        "Some more lines in the usage text\n"
        "Some more lines here too." )

The newlines in the string are still needed, but the ones escaping the 
EOLs are not.
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