Hot to split string literals that will across two or more lines ?

[Ben Finney]

Tony Nelson <*firstname*nlsnews at georgea*lastname*.com> wrote:
> While we're at it, I use bracketing instead of line continuation:
> 
>     print ( "a long string, longer than this "
>             "and some more of the string" )

To continue the pedantry: Those are parentheses, not brackets.

Slightly more on-topic, the parentheses make it look like a sequence
to this reader (though, without a comma, not to the Python parser, of
course).

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Ben Finney