[Tutor] string on multiple lines

[Chris Kassopulo]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:19:53 +0100
Magnus Lycka <magnus@thinkware.se> wrote:

> At 13:38 2002-11-12 -0500, Chris Kassopulo wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I have a long string that I want to test.  I've tried \,
> >single quotes, triple quotes - how does one have a string
> >across multiple lines in a script ?

> If you really want to test against the long string which
> in itself contains strings, you have to clarify what you really
> want. Is it a long line, or does it have line breaks? Should
> the four spaces before e.g. "Issue Date" really be there?

It is the first line of a .csv file.  I read it with readlines
and replace '\r\n' with ''.  No breaks or spaces. I've tried
some mutations of your suggestions and what I can get to work is:
(shortened for wordwrap)

if 1:
    ref_string='"Series","Denomination","Serial Number","Issue Date"'
    tst_string='"Series",\
"Denomination",\
"Serial Number",\
"Issue Date"'

    print ref_string
    print "compared with"
    print tst_string

    if tst_string != ref_string:
        print "error: not a valid csv file"
    else:
        print 'ref_string is same as tst_string'

but this doesn't work because of the leading spaces:
    tst_string='"Series",\
        "Denomination",\
	"Serial Number",\
        "Issue Date"'
	
just found that this works:
    tst_string='"Series",' + \
        "Denomination",' + \
	"Serial Number",' + \
        "Issue Date"'
	
any other way ?

Chris Kassopulo