assigning multi-line strings to variables

[Lie Ryan]

On 05/01/10 05:43, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 05/01/10 03:56, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>>>
>>> Use triple-quoted, let them flow, done. I've never heard of any text
>>> editor in current use without text wrapping capability, even Notepad has
>>> it. And if I've got 5k of text in  source code without line breaks I
>>> wouldn't want that silly string to disturb my view of the code. You
>>> argument aren't even convincing.
>>
>> You'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're working with text
>> wrapping in your editor.
> 
> In the other hand, you'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're
> writing, debugging, and running a script to wrap and put various escapes
> for quotes and newlines, + you need to figure out how to force that
> script to accept your 5k string.

+ now your chunk is in obfuscated form with various quote noise,
unnecessary escape characters and the like.