How can I do a line break (line continuation) in Python?

Question

I have a long line of code that I want to break up among multiple lines. What do I use and what is the syntax?

For example, adding a bunch of strings,

e = 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd'

and have it in two lines like this:

e = 'a' + 'b' + 

     'c' + 'd'

Answer 1

In the next line you can just have arguments without any problems:

An example that illustrates how you can write in the next line:

y = '1' + '2' + '3' + \

    '4' + '5'

Or:

x = ('1' + '2' + '3' + 

     '4' + '5')

The Python style guide says that using the implicit continuation with parentheses is preferred, but in this particular case just adding parentheses around your expression is probably the wrong way to go.

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