Re: The irony

2016-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/05/2016 20:03, DFS wrote: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ "Explicit is better than implicit." What is your use case and scenario? :-) Maybe it's better to write a function to automatise this so that if i

Re: The irony

2016-05-10 Thread sohcahtoa82
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 11:03:47 AM UTC-7, DFS wrote: > "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ > > Each method of string concatenation has different uses. > --- > sSQL = "line 1\

Re: The irony

2016-05-10 Thread Tim Chase
(interspersing letters to name your examples) On 2016-05-10 14:03, DFS wrote: A (nope) > --- > sSQL = "line 1\n" > sSQL += "line 2\n" > sSQL += "line 3" B (see below) > --- > sSQL = ("line 1\n" > "line 2\n" > "lin

Re: The irony

2016-05-10 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 2:03:47 PM UTC-4, DFS wrote: > 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. I would use a way you didn't show: sSQL = """ line1 line2