writing code over several lines

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Oct 17 11:02:36 EDT 2003


Dominik Kaspar wrote:
> 
> i want to initialize a constant list at the beginning of a python
> program. but the list is too big for one line. is there any
> possibility to spread the list over several lines, so that the code
> looks neat again?
> 
> something like:
> LIST = [[100, 101, 102], [200, 201, 202], [300, 301, 302],
>         [400, 401, 402], [500, 501, 502], [600, 601, 602],
>         [700, 701, 702], [800, 801, 802], [900, 901, 902]]

Did you know that you can run Python directly and get an interactive
interpreter, where you could try out code like the above and
see what it does?  This and other helpful things are covered in
the online tutorial at http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

-Peter




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