Need formatting suggestion for long strings

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On Sep 5, 3:29 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:24:16 -0500, Robert Dailey <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >I find quite often that I'm writing things like this:
>
> >raise FatalExcept( "Insufficient number of arguments specified. Exactly {0}
> >arguments are required. See stage.bat for documentation on accepted
> >parameters.".format( num_arguments ) )
>
> >On my display (Vertical monitor), this exceeds the width of my display, and
> >to view the entire length of the string I am forced to pan my view left and
> >right. Is there a special way I can format this string so that it fits
> >nicely on the screen? Keep in mind that one important factor is that
> >whitespace is very sensitive, and I do not want line breaks in my script
> >file to become part of the string itself. I like how C++ handles strings,
> >like this:
>
> >char const* mystring =
> >    "This is a very long string that "
> >    "spans multiple lines and does "
> >    "not include line breaks or tabs "
> >    "from the source file between "
> >    "the strings partitions."
>
> >What do you guys prefer? Thanks for reading.
>
> mystring = (
>     "This is a very long string that "
>     "spans multiple lines and does "
>     "not include line breaks or tabs "
>     "from the source file between "
>     "the strings partitions.")
>
> Jean-Paul

Can you be more specific?  What is the formatting criteria?  Are you
talking about formatting the string for display or are you talking
about the source?