Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Is it better to do:
>
> message = """This is line1.
> This is line2
> This is line3\n"""
>
> or
>
> message = "This is line1.\n
> message = message + "This is line2\n"
> message = message + "This is line3\n"
>
>
> Since the first method does not follow python's clean and easy looking
> indentation structure but the second just looks crude and ugly anyway.
>
> If I indent the first version so the text is lined up to match code
> indentation then this comes out in the input and isn't aligned there.
>
What about
message = """
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
"""
When it is necessary to skip first empty line):
message = """
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
"""[1:]
When necessary to skip first line _and_ indentation:
message = """
This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
""".replace('\n ', '\n')[1:] # adjust here '\n ' to indentation
# ^-- gives 'This is line 1\nThis is line 2\nThis is line 3\n'
?
Claudio
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