On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:30:24 +0200, candide wrote:
> The escape sequence \ENTER allows to split a string over 2 consecutive
> lines. On the other hand, it seems impossible to split a numeric
> litteral across multiple lines
[...]
> Is this the general behaviour ?
Yes. You can't put any whitespace in the middle of a numeric literal:
>>> n = 4 2
File "<stdin>", line 1
n = 4 2
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> So, how do you edit code containing a very very long numeric constant ?
s = (
"1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
"1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
"1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
"1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
"1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
)
assert len(s) == 200
n = int(s)
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