On 11/18/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Noam Raphael wrote:
> > I just wanted to add another use case: long messages. Consider those
> > lines from idlelib/run.py:133
> >
> > msg = "IDLE's subprocess can't connect to %s:%d. This may be due "\
> > "to your personal firewall configuration. It is safe to "\
> > "allow this internal connection because no data is visible on
> > "\
> > "external ports." % address
> > tkMessageBox.showerror("IDLE Subprocess Error", msg, parent=root)
>
> You are missing an important point here: There are intentionally no line
> breaks in this string; it must be a single line, or else showerror will
> break it in funny ways. So converting it to a multi-line string would
> break it, dedent or not.
Only if you didn't include newline escapes, e.g.::
msg = textwrap.dedent('''\
IDLE's subprocess can't connect to %s:%d. This may be due \
to your personal firewall configuration. It is safe to \
allow this internal connection because no data is visible on \
external ports.''' % address)
STeVe
--
You can wordify anything if you just verb it.
--- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
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