Line continuation for a string > 79 characters

[Berthold Höllmann]

"Paul Brian" <paul1brian at yahoo.com> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> probably a foolish question, but how do I break up a string that has more
> than 79 characters so it looks pretty / adheres to style guides?
> eg
> 
> filename = '\\myroot\\somefolder...arbitrarty
> path...\\yetanotherfolder\\foo.txt'
> 
> I can do this
> 
> filename = '\\myroot\\somefolder\\someotherfolder\
> \\anotherfolder\\stillanotherfolder\
> \\yetanotherfolder\\foo.txt'

First using slashes instead of backsleashes saves some characters:

filename = '/myroot/somefolder/someotherfolder\
/anotherfolder/stillanotherfolder\
/yetanotherfolder/foo.txt'

and then you could write

filename = ('/myroot'
            '/somefolder'
            '/someotherfolder'
            '/anotherfolder'
            '/stillanotherfolder'
            '/yetanotherfolder'
            '/foo.txt')

or

import os, os.path
filename = os.sep + os.path.join('myroot',
             'somefolder',
             'someotherfolder',
             'anotherfolder',
             'stillanotherfolder',
             'yetanotherfolder',
             'foo.txt')

Greetings

Berthold

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