New line of code in python

Question

I am doing some Python programming, and I have a couple of lines that are longer than 120 chars, which is our maximum line width in our coding style guidelines.

Now I was wondering how to do a line break in python, here is an example:

someString = "Here is a [.......] very long text"    # This line is now 130 chars long

And I want something like this:

someString = "Here is a [...]
    [...] very long text"

How can I format my python script like this?

dup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2504411/proper-indentation-for-python-multiline-strings — jean-loup, Jun 11 '14 at 11:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 11:28

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Put it in parentheses and split up the lines with open and close quotes - these are automatically concatenated.

someString = ("Here is a [...]"
              "[...] very long text")

answered Jun 11 '14 at 11:28

Daniel Roseman

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 11:28

someString = "Here is a [...] \
    [...] very long text"

or

print('Here is a [...]'
      '[...] very long text')

or even

someString = ('Here is a [...]'
              '[...] very long string')

or why not

someString = 'Here is a [...]'
someString += '[...] very long string'

New line of code in python

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