On 22. 03. 22 9:16, Martin Bendsöe via docs wrote:

Clarification, the example should be:

print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]      -h                        Display this usage message      -H hostname               Hostname to connect to\ """)

or

print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]      -h                        Display this usage message      -H hostname               Hostname to connect to""")

So, you're suggesting that the trailing newline should not be included in the string?

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 9:01 AM Martin Bendsöe mailto:martin.bendsoe@neotechnology.com> wrote:

This is correct:

https://docs.python.org/3.2/tutorial/introduction.html https://docs.python.org/3.2/tutorial/introduction.html

Or, strings can be surrounded in a pair of matching triple-quotes: """ or '''. End of lines do not need to be escaped when using triple-quotes, but they will be included in the string. So the following uses one escape to avoid an unwanted initial blank line.

print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]      -h                        Display this usage message      -H hostname               Hostname to connect to """)

This is NOT correct:

https://docs.python.org/3.3/tutorial/introduction.html https://docs.python.org/3.3/tutorial/introduction.html

String literals can span multiple lines. One way is using triple-quotes: """...""" or '''...'''. End of lines are automatically included in the string, but it’s possible to prevent this by adding a \ at the end of the line. The following example:

print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]      -h                        Display this usage message      -H hostname               Hostname to connect to """)

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