Re: Anyone want to critique this program?

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Anyone want to critique this program?
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Date	2011-07-04 07:37 +1000
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John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 2, 10:02 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > game_information = '***Chutes and Ladders***\nUp to four (4) players
> > > may play.\n'\
> > >                   'There are 90 spaces on the board. '\
> > >                   'The player to reach space 90 first wins.'
> >
> > I'd do this with a triple-quoted string - it'll simply go across multiple lines:
> > game_information = """***Chutes and Ladders***
> > Up to four (4) players may play.
> > There are 90 spaces on the board.
> > The player to reach space 90 first wins."""
>
> Yeah, I considered that, but I just hate the way it looks when the
> line wraps around to the left margin.

    import textwrap

    game_information = textwrap.dedent("""\
        ***Chutes and Ladders***
        Up to four (4) players may play.
        There are 90 spaces on the board.
        The player to reach space 90 first wins.
        """)

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Anyone want to critique this program? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 19:19 -0700
  Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 13:02 +1000
    Re: Anyone want to critique this program? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 20:41 -0700
      Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 14:00 +1000
      Re: Anyone want to critique this program? "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-03 18:06 +0000
        Re: Anyone want to critique this program? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-03 20:25 -0700
          Re: Anyone want to critique this program? "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-04 16:37 +0000
            Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-05 03:21 +1000
              Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-05 10:03 +1000
                Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-05 10:11 +1000
      Re: Anyone want to critique this program? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-04 07:37 +1000

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