"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ ----------------------------------- sSQL = "line 1\n" sSQL += "line 2\n" sSQL += "line 3" ----------------------------------- sSQL = ("line 1\n" "line 2\n" "line 3") ----------------------------------- sSQL = "\n".join([ "line 1", "line 2", "line 3", ]) ----------------------------------- sSQL = """line 1 line 2 line 3""" ----------------------------------- sSQL = """\ line 1 line 2 line 3""" ----------------------------------- sSQL = "line 1\n" \ "line 2\n" \ "line 3" ----------------------------------- Which is the "one obvious way" to do it? I liked: sSQL = "line 1\n" sSQL += "line 2\n" sSQL += "line 3" but it's frowned upon in PEP8. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list