On 11.05.13 19:24, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 11.05.2013 19:05, Christian Tismer wrote:
I think a simple stripping of white-space in
text = s""" leftmost column two-char indent """
would solve 95 % of common indentation and concatenation cases. I don't think provision for merging is needed very often. If text occurs deeply nested in code, then it is also quite likely to be part of an expression, anyway. My major use-case is text constants in a class or function that is multiple lines long and should be statically ready to use without calling a function.
(here an 's' as a strip prefix, but I'm not sold on that) This is not a good solution for long lines where you don't want to have embedded line endings. Taken from existing code:
_litmonth = ('(?P<litmonth>' 'jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec|' 'mär|mae|mrz|mai|okt|dez|' 'fev|avr|juin|juil|aou|aoû|déc|' 'ene|abr|ago|dic|' 'out' ')[a-z,\.;]*')
or raise errors.DataError( 'Inconsistent revenue item currency: ' 'transaction=%r; transaction_position=%r' % (transaction, transaction_position))
We usually try to keep the code line length under 80 chars, so splitting literals in that way is rather common, esp. in nested code paths.
Your first example is a regex, which could be used as-is. Your second example is indented five levels deep. That is a coding style which I would propose to write differently for better readability. And if you stick with it, why not use the "+"? I want to support constant strings, which should not be somewhere in the middle of code. Your second example is computed, anyway, not the case that I want to solve. cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@stackless.com> Software Consulting : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14482 Potsdam : PGP key -> http://pgp.uni-mainz.de phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/