On 06/13/2011 04:55 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:31:29PM +0200, Tracubik wrote:
4 print "this is a very long string that i'm going to
write 5 here, it'll be for sure longer than 80 columns"
Is there a better way to split the string?
There is! Python (as C) concatenates string literals with nothing in
between them.
def foo():
... print "this is not such a huge line " \
... "but it's still pretty long"
...
foo()
this is not such a huge line but it's still pretty long
Python also treats consecutive strings as a single string, so you
can do things like
print ("this is not "
"such a huge line "
"even though it has "
"lots of text in it."
)
I tend to put the closing paren on its own line just to minimize
noise in my VCS diffs when the text changes. Truth be told, I
often put the opening paren separate from the text:
print (
"this is not "
"such a huge line "
"even though it has "
"lots of text in it."
)
for the same reason, even though I know some folks on the list
occasionally grouse about dangling-parens.
-tkc
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