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Re: split long string in two code lines

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On 06/13/2011 05:38 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tim Chase
> <python.list@tim.thechases.com>  wrote:
>>   print ("this is not "
>>     "such a huge line "
>>     "even though it has "
>>     "lots of text in it."
>>     )
>>
>>   print (
>>     "this is not "
>>     "such a huge line "
>>     "even though it has "
>>     "lots of text in it."
>>     )
>
> I'm not seeing the difference between these two. Pointer, please? *puzzled*

Sorry...tried to make that clear in the surrounding text.  The 
first one has the open-paren on the same line as the starting 
line of content-text; the second one just has "print (" on the 
first line without the text (which is on the following line).

> Related point: Do you indent the ) to the same level as the opening
> quote on each line, or do you backdent it to the level of the
> statement? And, does it (either way) feel like you're writing braces
> in C?

My personal tastes run to your first form (the close-paren at the 
same indent level as the text) which makes it easy to use Vim's 
indent-based folding the way I mostly like.  I do (well, 
"did"...I try to shirk C/C++ these days because I just feel so 
unproductive compared to coding in Python) the same in my own C 
code for the same reason.  But if employer-standards dictate 
otherwise, when in Rome, render onto Caesar (to throw two 
aphorisms in the blender :)

-tkc

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split long string in two code lines Tracubik <affdfsdfdsfsd@b.com> - 2011-06-13 23:31 +0200
  Re: split long string in two code lines darnold <darnold992000@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-13 14:51 -0700
    Re: split long string in two code lines Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-13 23:55 -0400
  Re: split long string in two code lines Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2011-06-13 16:55 -0500
  Re: split long string in two code lines Redcat <redcat@catfolks.net> - 2011-06-13 22:21 +0000
  Re: split long string in two code lines Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-06-13 17:33 -0500
  Re: split long string in two code lines Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-14 08:38 +1000
  Re: split long string in two code lines Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-06-13 18:03 -0500
  Re: split long string in two code lines Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-14 09:11 +1000

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