multiline strings and proper indentation/alignment

Tue May 9 15:26:12 EDT 2006

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> How do you make a single string span multiple lines, but also allow 
>> yourself to indent the second ... without causing the newlines and 
>> tabs or spaces to be added to the string as well?
>  >
>> self.DTD = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"\n
>>            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">\n\n'''
>>
>> ..., but I don't want the extra newline or tabs to be a part of the 
>> string when it's printed.
> 
> The easiest way:
> 
>     self.DTD = ('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"\n'
>                 '"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">\n\n')
> 
> Adjacent strings are combined at compile-time, and parens around allows
> you to do a multi-line expression.
> 
> --Scott David Daniels
> scott.daniels at acm.org

Thanks guys. Looks like both of your suggestions are pretty much the 
same thing, which is putting strings next to one another. Something 
about it looks wrong, but I guess it works!)