添加@Levon的答案。。。。

1.创建如下多行字符串：

paragraph = """this is a very
        long string if I had the
        energy to type more and more ..."""

print(paragraph)

输出：

'this is a very\n        long string if I had the\n        energy to type more and more ...'

此字符串将包含换行符和空格。因此，请移除它们。

2.使用正则表达式删除多余的空格

paragraph = re.sub('\s+', ' ', paragraph)
print(paragraph)

输出：

'this is a very long string if I had the energy to type more and more ...'

我发现自己对这个很满意：

string = """This is a
very long string,
containing commas,
that I split up
for readability""".replace('\n',' ')

用\换行对我很有用。下面是一个例子：

longStr = "This is a very long string " \
        "that I wrote to help somebody " \
        "who had a question about " \
        "writing long strings in Python"

例如：

sql = ("select field1, field2, field3, field4 "
       "from table "
       "where condition1={} "
       "and condition2={}").format(1, 2)

Output: 'select field1, field2, field3, field4 from table
         where condition1=1 and condition2=2'

如果条件的值应该是字符串，可以这样做：

sql = ("select field1, field2, field3, field4 "
       "from table "
       "where condition1='{0}' "
       "and condition2='{1}'").format('2016-10-12', '2017-10-12')

Output: "select field1, field2, field3, field4 from table where
         condition1='2016-10-12' and condition2='2017-10-12'"

从Python官方文档中：

字符串文本可以跨越多行。一种方法是使用三引号：“”“…”“”或“”“”…“”。行的结束是自动的包含在字符串中，但可以通过添加\在线路的末端。以下示例：

print("""\
Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]
     -h                        Display this usage message
     -H hostname               Hostname to connect to
""")

生成以下输出（注意，初始换行符不是包括在内）：

该方法使用：

使用三引号字符串几乎没有内部标点符号使用检查模块去除局部压痕account_id和def_id变量使用Python 3.6格式的字符串插值（'f'）。

这种方式在我看来是最有蟒蛇风格的。

import inspect

query = inspect.cleandoc(f'''
    SELECT action.descr as "action",
    role.id as role_id,
    role.descr as role
    FROM
    public.role_action_def,
    public.role,
    public.record_def,
    public.action
    WHERE role.id = role_action_def.role_id AND
    record_def.id = role_action_def.def_id AND
    action.id = role_action_def.action_id AND
    role_action_def.account_id = {account_id} AND
    record_def.account_id={account_id} AND
    def_id={def_id}'''
)