On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:53:42 PM UTC+12, John Wong wrote:
> s = ("this string continues " +
>"substring continues")
Now there’s a Java way of doing it. :)
I prefer implicit string concatenation myself.
Isn’t it peculiar that, while this feature was introduced in C and faithfully
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 11:53 am, John Wong wrote:
> The way I solve it, and I still find that extremely ugly, is
>
> s = ("this string continues " +
>"substring continues")
You don't need the plus sign, as Python will concatenate string literals
(not variables) at compile time:
"foo" 'bar'
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> Python allows a single string literal to cross multiple lines, provided it
> begins and ends with three quote characters, e.g.
>
> s = """this string continues
> on the next line."""
>
> There is a drawback with this: any white
Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
> So really, you should write it more like
>
> s = """this string continues
> on the next line."""
>
> which gets a bit ugly.
For this I have the following treatment
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2504454/70157>:
import textwrap
s = textwrap.dedent("""\
Python allows a single string literal to cross multiple lines, provided it
begins and ends with three quote characters, e.g.
s = """this string continues
on the next line."""
There is a drawback with this: any whitespace at the start of the continuation
line is included as part of the s
