John Salerno wrote: > On Jul 3, 1:06 pm, "OKB (not okblacke)" > <brennospamb...@nobrenspambarn.net> wrote: > >> > Yeah, I considered that, but I just hate the way it looks when the >> > line wraps around to the left margin. I wanted to line it all up >> > under the opening quotation mark. The wrapping may not be as much >> > of an issue when assigning a variable like this, but I especially >> > don't like triple-quoted strings that wrap around inside function >> > definitions. That seems to completely throw off the indentation. Do >> > people still use triple-quotes in that situation? >> >> I do, because I use an editor that intelligently indents >> wrapped text to the same indent level as the beginning of the line, >> instead of wrapping it all the way back to the margin. > > But isn't wrapped text something different than text that is purposely > split across multiple lines with a newline character? That's usually > the case when I need to split up a long string.
Well, what I'm saying is I use an editor that lets me make the lines as long as I want, and it still wraps them right, so I never explicitly hit enter to break a line except at the end of a string (or paragraph). -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown
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