style question

[Fredrik Lundh]

Frank Millman wrote:

>> How about
>>
>>   message = ("This is line1. "
>>                      "This is line2 "
>>                      "This is line3\n")
>>
>> The brackets mean that the lines are automatically treated as
>> continuous, without the need for the ugly '\' continuation character.
>>
>> The opening/closing quotes on each line mean that the strings are
>> contatenated into one long string.
>
> Don't know what happened there - Google seems to have messed up my
> indentation.
>
> My intention was that each of the three leading quote marks line up
> vertically, but when I read it back via Google Groups, the second two
> lines were pushed over to the right.

assuming fixed-pitch fonts isn't very Pythonic, though; to get reliable indentation
no matter what font you're using, you can write:

    message = (
        "This is line1. "
        "This is line2 "
        "This is line3\n")

whether this is better than """ depends on the situation.

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