[Python-ideas] PEP 8 and long string literals

[David B]

I generally break them up and then use  "".join() as that is "most
readable" IMHO.  The same is true for SQL queries.

On 2/25/19, Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:05 AM INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I think long URL in comment or docstring is good reason to ignore
>> line length limit.
>
> A very good point. We can't banish long URLs from the Internet,
> because they violate PEP 8.
>
>> But I'm not sure about general long string literals.
>
> I hope programmers would be sensible in their use of long string
> literals (as with their choice of variable names). However, I don't
> think this can be reliable machine checked, with the tools we
> presently have. Machines find it hard to determine programmer intent,
> except via a formal language.
>
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> Jonathan
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