On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:38:52PM +0000, John Salerno wrote: > How do you make a single string span multiple lines, but also allow > yourself to indent the second (third, etc.) lines so that it lines up > where you want it, without causing the newlines and tabs or spaces to be > added to the string as well? > > Example (pretend this is all on one line): > > self.DTD = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML > 4.01//EN"\n"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>\n\n' > > I want it to read: > > self.DTD = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"\n > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>\n\n''' > > Or anything like that, but I don't want the extra newline or tabs to be > a part of the string when it's printed.
My favorite way: self.DTD = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN ''' '''http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>\n\n''' Kindly Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
