On 10/18/2012 12:58 PM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > >> <SNIP> >> But both C++ and Python have automatic concatenation of adjacent >> strings. So you can just start and end each line with a quote, and >> leave off the backslash. >> > That will work in C++ as the statements won't terminate on new-line (only > on semi-colon), however in Python that won't work as the statement > will terminate at the end of the line. You can get around this by wrapping > the multiple strings inside of parentheses. > >
You're right of course. As it happens, i tested my "remembery" with a function call (print, in Python 3) , so I already had the parens. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list