Yves S. Garret wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about breaking up really long lines of code in
> Python.
>
> I have the following line of code:
> log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s" %(settings['MONGODB_DB'],
> settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']), level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)
>
> Given the fact that it goes off very far to the right on my screen is not
> terribly
> pleasing to my eyes (and can be rude for other developers).
>
> I was thinking of splitting it up like so:
> log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s"
> %(settings['MONGODB_DB'], settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']),
> level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)
>
> Is this ok? Are there any rules in Python when it comes to breaking up
> long lines of
> code?
You can move the goal posts and change your API (to one similar to the
logging module in the standard library, for example):
log.debug(
"Wrote item to MongoDB database %s/%s",
settings["MONGODB_DB"],
settings["MONGODB_COLLECTIONS"],
spider=spider)
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