Breaking long string without the spaces in Python

Question

So, here is a snippet of my code:

return \"a Parallelogram with side lengths {} and {}, and interior angle 
{}\".format(str(self.base), str(self.side), str(s         


        

Answer 1

You can put parenthesis around the whole expression:

return ("a Parallelogram with side lengths {} and {}, and interior "
        "angle {}".format(self.base, self.side, self.theta))

or you could still use \ to continue the expression, just use separate string literals:

return "a Parallelogram with side lengths {} and {}, and interior " \
       "angle {}".format(self.base, self.side, self.theta)

Note that there is no need to put + between the strings; Python automatically joins consecutive string literals into one:

>>> "one string " "and another"
'one string and another'

I prefer parenthesis myself.

The str() calls are redundant; .format() does that for you by default.