semi-concatenated strings

[Duncan Booth]

Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in
news:Xns921EEEC6D92A7cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82: 

> i think the example is in the docs. e.g. when you want to comment on a
> complicated string, like an regex:
> 
> re.compile("([ab])+"   #group one (at least one occurence of either a
> or b) 
>            "(hello)*"  #group two (optional)
>           )

In this case you could also put the comments inside a single string which 
may or may not make it more readable:

r = re.compile('''
  ([ab])+   #group one (at least one occurence of either a or b) 
  (hello)*  #group two (optional)''',
   re.VERBOSE)


-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?