> I'm concerned about the formatting of the string in that I do not want the > way I split the string up in source code to affect the way the string is > displayed to the console. In other words, in source, if I break up a single > string into multiple lines (using carriage returns), I would expect the > string to still render as a single-line string. > > I'm also concerned about the source formatting, because I do not want the > single-line string to run off the edge of my display. I want it to be in > "Paragraph form" in the source code, but remain a single-line when printed.
I think you can also escape the line breaks: >>> mystring = ( ... "This is a very long string that " ... "spans multiple lines and does " ... "not include line breaks or tabs " ... "from the source file between " ... "the strings partitions.") >>> mystring2 = 'This is a very long string that spans multiple lines and does >>> not include line breaks or tabs from the source file between the strings >>> partitions.' >>> mystring == mystring2 True >>> mystring3 = 'This is a very long string that \ ... spans multiple lines and does not include line breaks \ ... or tabs from the source file between the strings \ ... partitions.' >>> mystring3 == mystring True -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
