[Tutor] outputting long lines

[Gerrit Holl]

Paul Tremblay schreef op zaterdag  8 maart om 07:22:14 +0000:
> Is there a tecnique for printing out long lines that span more than the
> length of your script?
> 
> For example, I am trying to output this line:
> 
> 1  if self.__token_info == 'cw<nt<type______':
> 2              self.__write_to_foot_obj.write('\
> 3              mi<dv<op<footnote<at<num>%s' % self.__footnote_count)
> 
> My output is:
> 
>             mi<dv<op<footnote<at<num>2
> 
> I don't want this huge space at the beginning. I want:
> 
> mi<dv<op<footnote<at<num>2
> 
> There are ugly ways to achieve what I want. I could output the text with
> several write lines. I could get rid of the space in line 3 above. But I
> was thinking there is probably an easeir and more elegant solution.

You can also do:

67 >>> if True:
 67 ...  if True:
 67 ...   if True: # 3 levels indented
 67 ...    sys.stdout.write("""
 67 ... I want
 67 ... to write
 67 ... a text
 67 ... spanning
 67 ... multiple
 67 ... lines!""")

yours,
Gerrit.

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