Steven Bethard wrote:
> On 5/2/07, Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Implicit string concatenation is massively useful for creating long
>> strings in a readable way though:
>>
>> call_something("first part\n"
>> "second line\n"
>> "third line\n")
>>
>> I find it an elegant way of building strings and would be sad to see it
>> go. Adding trailing '+' signs is ugly.
>
> You'll still have textwrap.dedent::
>
> call_something(dedent('''\
> first part
> second line
> third line
> '''))
>
> And using textwrap.dedent, you don't have to remember to add the \n at
> the end of every line.
But if you don't want the EOLs? Example from some code of mine:
raise MakeError("extracting '%s' in '%s' did not create the "
"directory that the Python build will expect: "
"'%s'" % (src_pkg, dst_dir, dst))
I use this kind of thing frequently. Don't know if others consider it
bad style.
Trent
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Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com
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