On 05/01/10 05:43, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 05/01/10 03:56, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >>> >>> Use triple-quoted, let them flow, done. I've never heard of any text >>> editor in current use without text wrapping capability, even Notepad has >>> it. And if I've got 5k of text in source code without line breaks I >>> wouldn't want that silly string to disturb my view of the code. You >>> argument aren't even convincing. >> >> You'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're working with text >> wrapping in your editor. > > In the other hand, you'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're > writing, debugging, and running a script to wrap and put various escapes > for quotes and newlines, + you need to figure out how to force that > script to accept your 5k string.
+ now your chunk is in obfuscated form with various quote noise, unnecessary escape characters and the like. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list