> Is there any difference if I remove the '/' You mean the '\' I assume?
In this case no difference whatsoever because Python will keep on looking for the matching closing ']' > intMatrix2 = [[1,1,2,4,1,7,1,7,6,9],\ > [1,2,5,3,9,1,1,1,9,1],\ > [0,0,5,1,1,1,9,7,7,7]] > So what is the use of '\'? \ is the line continuation character. Thus if you need to wrap a line but don't want python to interpret it as two lines use a \ character: >>> print ' here is a long line of text ' + \ ... 'extended by another string' ' here is a long line of text extended by another string' Without the \ char you get an error. But if there is an open bracket or paren then Python ignores the end of line until it finds the closing paren etc. However many programmers like to put the \ char anyway just to indicate that it is a single logical line broken for readability HTH, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
