On 02/22/2013 04:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
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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There are a few ways:
"abc \
xyz"
("abc " \
"xyz")
("abc "
"xyz")
The last ones work because two string literals next to each other
are combined:
'abc' 'xyz' == 'abcxyz'
-m
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