The irony

DFS nospam at dfs.com
Tue May 10 14:03:22 EDT 2016


"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/


-----------------------------------
sSQL =  "line 1\n"
sSQL += "line 2\n"
sSQL += "line 3"
-----------------------------------
sSQL = ("line 1\n"
         "line 2\n"
         "line 3")
-----------------------------------
sSQL = "\n".join([
          "line 1",
          "line 2",
          "line 3",
        ])
-----------------------------------
sSQL =  """line 1
line 2
line 3"""
-----------------------------------
sSQL = """\
line 1
line 2
line 3"""
-----------------------------------
sSQL = "line 1\n" \
        "line 2\n" \
        "line 3"
-----------------------------------


Which is the "one obvious way" to do it?

I liked:

sSQL =  "line 1\n"
sSQL += "line 2\n"
sSQL += "line 3"


but it's frowned upon in PEP8.





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