My first Python program

[Ben Finney]

Seebs <usenet-nospam at seebs.net> writes:

> On 2010-10-13, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Python borrows from C in that consecutive literal strings are
> > concatenated in the bytecode::
> >
> >     stderr.write(
> >         "WARNING:"
> >         " Pants on fire\n")
>
> Hmm. So I just indent stuff inside the ()s or whatever? I can work
> with that.

Yes. More generally, within any “parenthesising” operators, like parens,
brackets, or braces. Anything which allows Python's parser to read the
next line as a continuation.

You'll often find code written in a different style:

    long_line_to_demonstrate_my_point.write("WARNING:"
                                            " Pants on fire\n")

but I find that silly and unwieldy, especially when the early parts of
the first line change length.

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Ben Finney