[Tutor] How to break long lines?

[Jim Byrnes]

I am cleaning up my code and have a number of sqlite3 execute statements 
that extend far past 80 characters.

From my reading implicit line joining with (), [] or {} seems to be the 
preferred method, but

cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account
        COLLATE NOCASE', cat)

gives this error:

jfb@jims1204:~/MyProgs/passwords$ python passwords.py
  File "passwords.py", line 50
    cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account
                                                                          ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Using a \ seems to be out of favor but it works in this case.

cur.execute('SELECT Account FROM pwds WHERE Category=? ORDER BY Account\
        COLLATE NOCASE', cat)
# no error.

What am I not understanding about implicit line joining?

Thanks,  Jim

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