"Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> wrote in message news:TyxF6.3796$G04.437886 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net... > I want to have big text strings in my python scripts, whole paragraphs in > length. I do not want to have to insert \ characters at every line. Is > this possible? Sure, that's what triple quoted strings are for. Alex