Multiline strings and indentation

[richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com.bbs]

Hi Jen,

How about:

def multiline(x):
  if x:
    print "this is a" \
            "multi-line string that spans" \
            "three lines" \
 print "another string"

Richard

donotspam-jen at personic.com <dnotspam-jen at personic.com> wrote in message
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> I'm just getting started with Python. The indentation feature really does
> make things readable ... except when using multi-line strings.  This just
> doesn't look right:
>
> def multiline(x):
>   if x:
>     print """this is a
> multi-line string that spans
> three lines"""
>  print "another string"
>
> Is there a way to make the above more readable? It would be nice if it
could
> be written this way and have Python just figure out what whitespace to
> ignore:
>
> def multiline(x):
>   if x:
>     print """this is a
>              multi-line string that spans
>              three lines"""
>  print "another string"
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Jen
>
>