On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
>
> Alternatively, you can also use the statement continuation mechanism,
> whereby the last character of the line is a backslash. Using that approach
> you can break almost anywhere, except within a token or inside a string
> literal.
Also, the next character after a line continuation has to be a
newline, e.g. no spaces, tabs, or comments. Your editor should have a
feature to remove trailing white space on each line.
>>> a = 'this' \
File "<stdin>", line 1
a = 'this' \
^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
>>> a = ('this' # this way
... ' string' ' is long') # is more flexible
>>> a
'this string is long'
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