On 30.04.2010 21:46, * Lie Ryan:
On 05/01/10 05:43, Lie Ryan wrote:
On 05/01/10 03:56, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Use triple-quoted, let them flow, done. I've never heard of any text
editor in current use without text wrapping capability, even Notepad has
it. And if I've got 5k of text in source code without line breaks I
wouldn't want that silly string to disturb my view of the code. You
argument aren't even convincing.
You'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're working with text
wrapping in your editor.
In the other hand, you'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're
writing, debugging, and running a script to wrap and put various escapes
for quotes and newlines, + you need to figure out how to force that
script to accept your 5k string.
+ now your chunk is in obfuscated form with various quote noise,
unnecessary escape characters and the like.
Personally, for Python I'd put such text in a separate text file, as I
recommended first of all in the posting you've reacted so negatively to.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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