[Tutor] Style help: long strings with formatting

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> "W W" <srilyk at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> output = "At an average weekly savings of $%.02f, your monthly 
>> savings  will
>> be $%.02f. \n Your annual savings will be $%.02f." % (diff, 
>> monthly_savings,
>> annual_savings)
>> print output.
>>
>> As you can see, it's very much longer than the 72 characters suggested in
>> the PEP 8 found here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> 
> Use a triple quoted string for multiline output
> 
> output = """
> At an average weekly savings of \t$%.02f,
> your monthly savings  will be     \t$%.02f.
> Your annual savings will be       \t$%.02f.
> """ % (diff, monthly_savings, annual_savings)
> 
> print output
> 
> 
>> I know it would be fairly trivial to split it up into several strings, 
>> and
>> concatenating or printing each one.
> 
> Multiline strings are designed to save you having to do that.
> 

Alan, you have a couple of \n that the OP did not ask for.

Wayne, besides Alan's suggestion you might be looking for something
like :

Output = ('At an average weekly savings of $%.02f, your monthly '
	'savings  will be $%.02f. \n Your annual savings will'
	' be $%.02f.') % (diff, monthly_savings, annual_savings)

or :

Output = (
	'At an average weekly savings of $%.02f, your monthly '
	'savings  will be $%.02f. \n Your annual savings will'
	' be $%.02f.'
	) % (	diff
		, monthly_savings
		, annual_savings)

Or whatever. Parenthesis will help a lot when formatting your code.

HTH