What is the Pythonic way to write a single line text in multiple lines

Question

I need to print a long const sentence in a python script and we follow the "not more than 80 chars a line" rule.

I know the following would work but is there a better way to write this?

print ("This is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long "
       "sentencexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx").format("")

or,

print ("This is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long " +
        "sentencexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

Or, if one of them is preferable than the other one.

Edit:To make it more clear, the expected output is,

This is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long sentencexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

While your multiline strings have parenthesis - you can avoid backslashes, concatenation, formatting etc — Yaroslav Surzhikov, Sep 13 '17 at 03:23
@user2263572 No, it's not. That's about multiline strings, this question is about writing a single line string in multiple line. — Fallen, Sep 13 '17 at 03:24
Your first example does not violate any PEP rules; the answer you've accepted *does*. You first example is perfectly fine, but note that `.format("")` is unnecessary. — Zach Gates, Sep 13 '17 at 03:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '17 at 03:25

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I think this is a better way:

print(
"This is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long "
"sentence"
)

Actually, you need nothing to concatenate strings.

answered Sep 13 '17 at 03:25

Sraw

Ah, I mistakenly put a comma and that's why it was complaining. Thanks for the answer. – Fallen Sep 13 '17 at 03:28

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