line continuations with backslash

Paul Rubin phr-n2001 at nightsong.com
Mon Aug 27 18:28:46 EDT 2001


"Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g at Virginia.EDU> writes:
> Isn't the simplest solution just to put all 300 digits on one line ? 

Yes, but that makes the code look ugly in an editor.

> How many of these do you expect to have ?

Not very many.  Otherwise more than a few hundred bytes of .pyc would
be affected.

> Does someone have to type them all in without error, or are they
> generated ? 

They're pasted from an existing online document.



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