Sorry it took me so long to respond. I've been out for a couple days. While certain things may be permissible in a language, I think it is also important to look at the context at which the language is applied and make a determination if it will practically turn up in relevant code. If the answer is no, then I think it would be acceptable to add a note that the postgresql python implementation does not accept implicit newlines and any newlines must be explicit (the text \r\n)
That being said, the only place I can see wanting to use a newline is for a situation where you would want to either do a select statement with a multiline where such as results = plpy.execute("""...where textfield= 'multi line string'...""") or if you returned the results and wanted to do the same type of thing. if results[0]["textfield"]=="""multi line string""": ... However, this example assumes that the client writing the functions and the client inserting the data are always using the same OS, because if a linux client inserted the data and a windows client had written the function, it wouldn't receive any results, because postgresql sees the newline as valid characters. hat being the case I would say that while it is entirely possible to put multiline quoted text in python code, it would be inappropriate in a postgresql environment. Sim "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Sim Zacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've been looking at the possibility of having a planned CR in the source > > code and I don't see a case where it would happen. > > Does python actually disallow newlines in string literals? That is > > x = 'foo > bar' > > Whether you think this is good style is not the question --- is it > allowed by the language? > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])