On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:31:29PM +0200, Tracubik wrote: > Hi all, > > newbie question here > > how can i write code like this: > > 1 def foo(): > 2 for index in ... > 3 for plsdoit in ... > 4 print "this is a very long string that i'm going to > write 5 here, it'll be for sure longer than 80 columns" > > > the only way i've found is to use the "/", but than i've to write > something like this:
Perhaps you mean '\'? > > 1 def foo(): > 2 for index in ... > 3 for plsdoit in ... > 4 print "this is a very long string that i'm going to/ > 5 write here, it'll be for sure longer than 80 columns" > > what i don't really like is that line 5 is not indented. if i indent > it, the spaces will be counted as spaces of the string. > > Is there a better way to split the string? There is! Python (as C) concatenates string literals with nothing in between them. Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 8 2009, 11:11:42) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def foo(): ... print "this is not such a huge line " \ ... "but it's still pretty long" ... >>> foo() this is not such a huge line but it's still pretty long \t -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list