[Tutor] How to break long lines?

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 02/22/2013 04:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I am cleaning up my code and  have a number of sqlite3 execute statements that extend far past 80 
characters.
 >
 > From my reading implicit line joining with (), [] or {} seems to be 
the preferred method, but
 >
 > cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account
 > COLLATE NOCASE', cat)
 >
 > gives this error:
 >
 > jfb at jims1204:~/MyProgs/passwords$ python passwords.py
 > File "passwords.py", line 50
 > cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account
 > ^
 > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
 >
 > Using a \ seems to be out of favor but it works in this case.
 >
 > cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account\
 > COLLATE NOCASE', cat)
 > # no error.
 >
 > What am I not understanding about implicit line joining?
 >
 > Thanks, Jim
 >
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There are a few ways:

"abc \
xyz"

("abc " \
"xyz")

("abc "
"xyz")


The last ones work because two string literals next to each other
are combined:

'abc' 'xyz' == 'abcxyz'

  -m


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