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Wed Apr 25 08:33:25 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/064815.html

Sure.  One way is to pass your big string to a text formatting function that
breaks the line up as it outputs it.

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Emile van Sebille
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"Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> wrote in message
news:TyxF6.3796$G04.437886 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I want to have big text strings in my python scripts, whole paragraphs in
> length.  I do not want to have to insert \ characters at every line.  Is
> this possible?
>
> The application is a text adventure game.  I want the big paragraph text
> descriptions to be close to the program logic that governs them, I don't
> want to stick them off in some special file or database somewhere.  That
> might be a good idea for localization, but we don't know that the game
will
> ever be translated into another language, and it'll be a pain in the ass
for
> development to have the text separate.
>
> --
> Cheers,                                     www.3DProgrammer.com
> Brandon Van Every                           Seattle, WA
>
> For plot and pace, writers use words; game designers use numbers.
> Anything understood over time has plot and pace.
>
>
>

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