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Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project.

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On 1/10/2012 8:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

> about = "Built by Walter Hurry using Python and wxPython,\n" + \
>          "with wxGlade to generate the code for the GUI elements.\n" + \
>          "Phil Lewis' get_iplayer does the real work.\n\n" + \
>          "Version 1.05: January 10, 2012"
>
> I'd do this with a triple-quoted string:
>
> about = """Built by Walter Hurry using Python and wxPython,
> with wxGlade to generate the code for the GUI elements.
> Phil Lewis' get_iplayer does the real work.

I would too, but if you prefer the indentation, just leave out the '+'s 
and let Python do the catenation when compiling:
 >>> s = "abc\n" \
     "def\n"\
     "ghi"
 >>> s
'abc\ndef\nghi'

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-01-10 23:44 +0000
  Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 18:17 -0700
    Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-01-11 11:39 +0000
      Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-01-11 21:09 +0000
        Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-11 16:24 -0800
  Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-11 12:43 +1100
    Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-11 13:05 +1100
  Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 20:50 -0500
  Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 22:59 -0500
    Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-11 04:24 +0000
    Re: Newbie: Looking for code review on my first Python project. Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-11 16:23 +1100

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