Fredrik Lundh wrote: > 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>
Obvious, now that you mention it. Thank you. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list