[Tutor] outputting long lines

[Paul Tremblay]

Thanks everyone.

It seems like Gregor's solution is the best. (See what he wrote in his
ps.) Would the solution in this email really save a lot of time in
comparison to Gregor's solution?

Paul

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:11:39PM -0500, Erik Price wrote:
> 
> 
> On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 01:21  AM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> 
> >Is there a tecnique for printing out long lines that span more than the
> >length of your script?
> 
> One way to do it that doesn't sacrifice performance is to create a list 
> of strings and then join them all together when they need to be treated 
> as a single string.
> 
> >>> text = [
> ...  'Here is a ',
> ...  'really long string ',
> ...  'that is broken up ',
> ...  'over multiple lines.'
> ...        ]
> >>> text
> ['Here is a ', 'really long string ', 'that is broken up ', 'over 
> multiple lines.']
> >>> output = ''.join(text)
> >>> output
> 'Here is a really long string that is broken up over multiple lines.'
> >>>
> 
> Note that "output" is generated by calling the string method join() on 
> an empty string, passing the list as the argument.
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Erik Price
> 
> email: erikprice@mac.com
> jabber: erikprice@jabber.org

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