koranth...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 11, 9:26 am, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
koranth...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Python Coding Convention (PEP 8) suggests :
Maximum Line Length
Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.
I have a string which is ~110 char long. It is a string which I am
going to print in a text file as a single string.
i.e. in that text file, each line is taken as a different record -
so it has to be in a single line.
Now, how can I write this code - while following PEP 8?
I tried blockstrings, but as shown in the example below:
s = r'''
... abcd
... efgh
... '''
s
'\nabcd\nefgh\n'
it has "\n" inserted - which will disallow printing it to a single
line.
I thought about other options like concatenating strings etc, but
it seems very kludgy - esp since the whole string has a single meaning
and cannot be easily split to many logically. Then I thought of
creating a blockstring and then removing "\n", but it seemed
kludgier...
I usually use implicit concatenation:
s = ('some long text that '
'needs to be split')
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
This is a very good method.
I found another method too - on further investigation
s = "abc\
... efg"
s
'abcefg'
Only problem being that it doesnt support indentation.
So, implicit concatenation it is...
Another possibility is continuation _plus_ implicit concatenation.
def example():
message = "now is the time " \
"for all good people ..."
print message
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