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Python

Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 14,438 Points
Posted by Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 14,438 Points

PEP 8 question on maximum line length

How do you deal with literal strings that go past the maximum line length of 79 characters? For example, say I had a long literal string that I wanted to append to a list:

my_list.append("This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY long string...")

Python's implicit continuation inside parentheses doesn't work here, and while a backslash continuation character will work syntactically, any spaces used to indent the following line get inserted into the string.

1 Answer

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points

Hi Steven, what I like to do is break the string up onto multiple lines like so:

my_list.append("This is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, "
               "very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY ",
               "long string...")

Just be aware of the spaces when you're breaking up the string :)