My first Python program

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Oct 13 20:30:29 EDT 2010


Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> writes:
> msg = ("WARNING: "
>        "Pants on fire")

Ick. When the name changes to something with a different length, you'll
need to change every continuation line. A name change is easily
predicted and quite likely to happen often in one's code, so why invite
more work when it happens?

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