Multi-Line Strings: A Modest Proposal

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 11:53 am, John Wong wrote:

> The way I solve it, and I still find that extremely ugly, is
> 
> s = ("this string continues " +
>        "substring continues")

You don't need the plus sign, as Python will concatenate string literals
(not variables) at compile time:

"foo" 'bar' # compiles as 'foobar'

Note that you can mix any of the string delimiters, including raw strings.
And they don't have to be on the same line:

    raise ValueError(
            "This is a long 'error message' using"
            ' mixed "quotes" specifically so I can'
            " show off Python's string literal concatenation."
            )

That's equivalent to the one-line:

    raise ValueError("This is a long 'error message' using mixed \"quotes\" specifically so I can show off Python's string literal concatenation.")




-- 
Steve
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