"OKB (not okblacke)" <brennospamb...@nobrenspambarn.net> writes:
> Yeah, what I'm suggesting as the cleanest way is to simply make it > all one long string literal, which is wrapped by the editor to the > proper indentation point. I can't show this in a newgroup post, but > it'd be like: > > def somefunc(): > if someCondition(): > "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. > Fusce fermentum posuere mi eget molestie. Nulla facilisi. Curabitur et > ultrices massa." > > . . . except that the wrapped lines of the lorem ipsum would all line up > at the same level as the open quote. This is clean because you get to > type it exactly as you wanted it. You don't need to include extraneous > whitespice to get it to line up or wrap in your editor, and you also > don't need to choose the wrap points to put in extra quotes, as in your > example. The irritating thing about doing it your way is that if you > later change the text and it rewraps, you have to move your quote > marks. You can have the text indented and wrapped how you like it, then remove the leading whitespace at run-time with ‘textwrap.dedent’ <URL:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2504411/proper-indentation-for-python-multiline-strings/2504454#2504454>. -- \ “Sane people have an appropriate perspective on the relative | `\ importance of foodstuffs and human beings. Crazy people can't | _o__) tell the difference.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-04-18 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
