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

You could also go to into the code analysis and ignore that kind or error/warning. I am using eclipse and Pydev.

Windows > Preferences > Pydev > Editor > Code Analysis > pycodestyle.py (pep8)

then add to arguments : --ignore=E501 

Restart Eclipse and it should be fine for this warning.

Answer 2

You could build the string on multiple lines:

st='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?'
st=st+'include_entities=true&screen_name='+username+'&count=1'

header, response = client.request(st)

Answer 3

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.