Frank Millman wrote: >> How about >> >> message = ("This is line1. " >> "This is line2 " >> "This is line3\n") >> >> The brackets mean that the lines are automatically treated as >> continuous, without the need for the ugly '\' continuation character. >> >> The opening/closing quotes on each line mean that the strings are >> contatenated into one long string. > > Don't know what happened there - Google seems to have messed up my > indentation. > > My intention was that each of the three leading quote marks line up > vertically, but when I read it back via Google Groups, the second two > lines were pushed over to the right.
assuming fixed-pitch fonts isn't very Pythonic, though; to get reliable indentation no matter what font you're using, you can write: message = ( "This is line1. " "This is line2 " "This is line3\n") whether this is better than """ depends on the situation. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list