我有一个很长的疑问。我想用Python将它分成几行。在JavaScript中实现这一点的一种方法是使用几个句子并用+运算符将它们连接起来(我知道,也许这不是最有效的方法,但我并不真正关心这个阶段的性能,只是代码的可读性)。例子:

var long_string = 'some text not important. just garbage to' +
                      'illustrate my example';

我尝试在Python中做类似的事情,但没有成功,所以我使用了\来拆分长字符串。然而,我不确定这是否是唯一/最好/最蟒蛇的做法。看起来很尴尬。实际代码:

query = '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

当前回答

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."
)

其他回答

我发现,当构建长字符串时,您通常会做一些类似于构建SQL查询的事情,在这种情况下,这是最好的:

query = ' '.join((  # Note double parentheses. join() takes an iterable
    "SELECT foo",
    "FROM bar",
    "WHERE baz",
))

Levon的建议很好,但可能容易出错:

query = (
    "SELECT foo"
    "FROM bar"
    "WHERE baz"
)

query == "SELECT fooFROM barWHERE baz"  # Probably not what you want

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
}

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):

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"

“la”Scala方式(但我认为这是OP要求的最具Python风格的方式):

description = """
            | The intention of this module is to provide a method to
            | pass meta information in markdown_ header files for
            | using it in jinja_ templates.
            |
            | Also, to provide a method to use markdown files as jinja
            | templates. Maybe you prefer to see the code than
            | to install it.""".replace('\n            | \n','\n').replace('            | ',' ')

如果您希望最后的str没有跳转行,只需将\n放在第二个替换的第一个参数的开头:

.replace('\n            | ',' ')`.

注意:“…templates.”和“另外,…”之间的白线需要在|后面加一个空格。