[Tutor] continuation lines

[Marilyn Davis]

Thank you!


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Kent Johnson wrote:

> At 01:36 PM 11/1/2004 -0800, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> >And another thing, when, in Python code, can I hit the return key
> >mid-statement?  After a ',', and when else?  I've sort of given up
> >trying to break up statements.
> 
> You can break a line whenever you have an open parenthesis (, brace { or 
> bracket [
> eg
> 
> lst = [
>    'stuff',
>    'morestuff'
> ]
> 
> myDict = {
>    'a' : 1,
>    'b' : 2
> }
> 
> callOfFunctionWithVeryManyArguments('arg1', 'arg2',
>      'arg3', 'arg4')
> 
> You can explicitly continue a line by ending it with a \
> x = a + \
>      b
> 
> You can include line breaks inside triple-quoted strings:
> s = '''Here is some text
> that spans two lines'''
> 
> Kent 
> 
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