In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Simon Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Python also concatenates adjacent strings, but the "real" newlines
> between your strings will need to be escaped (otherwise, because the
> newlines are statement separators, you will have one print statement
> followed by string literals with the wrong indentation.)
>
> print "Usage: blah blah blah\n" \
> "Some more lines in the usage text\n" \
> "Some more lines here too."
>
> (Note that the final string literal newline is not needed since print
> will add one of it's own.)
One can also use parentheses:
print ( "Usage: blah blah blah\n"
"Some more lines in the usage text\n"
"Some more lines here too." )
The newlines in the string are still needed, but the ones escaping the
EOLs are not.
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