Pep8 E501: line too long error

Question

I get the error E501: line too long from this code:

header, response = client.request(\'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses   /user_timeline.js         


        

Answer 1

The whitespaces at the beginning of the lines become part of your string if you break it like this.

Try this:

header, response = client.request(
   'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.'
   'json?include_entities=true&screen_name=' + username + '&count=1')

The strings will automatically be concatenated.