我认为当代码（例如，变量）缩进并且输出字符串应该是单行（没有换行）时，另一个选项更可读：

def some_method():

    long_string = """
A presumptuous long string
which looks a bit nicer
in a text editor when
written over multiple lines
""".strip('\n').replace('\n', ' ')

    return long_string

PEP 8风格指南建议使用括号：

包装长行的首选方式是在括号、括号和大括号内使用Python的隐含行延续。通过将表达式括在括号中，可以在多行上打断长行。应优先使用这些字符，而不是使用反斜杠作为换行符。

例子：

long_string = (
    "This is a lengthy string that takes up a lot of space. I am going to "
    "keep on typing words to fill up more and more space to show how you can "
    "split the string across multiple lines."
)

为了在字典内定义长字符串，保留换行符但省略空格，我最终以如下常量定义字符串：

LONG_STRING = \
"""
This is a long sting
that contains newlines.
The newlines are important.
"""

my_dict = {
   'foo': 'bar',
   'string': LONG_STRING
}

在Python>=3.6中，可以使用格式化字符串文本（f字符串）

query= 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}'''

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 ...'

您还可以将SQL语句放置在单独的文件action.SQL中，并使用以下命令将其加载到.py文件中：

with open('action.sql') as f:
   query = f.read()

因此，SQL语句将与Python代码分离。如果SQL语句中有需要从Python填充的参数，则可以使用字符串格式（如%s或｛field｝）。