From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-17T03:48:53+09:00
Subject: comments and continuing strings on the next line

I have a tendency to write:

foo =
"this is a string " \
"that is continued on a second line"

I'd like to write:

foo =
"this is a string " # this is a comment \
"that is continued on a second line"

but this doesn't work (I only get the second part of the string and the
first part is ignored).  And:

foo =
"this is a string " \# this is a comment
"that is continued on a second line"

is a syntax error.

I could write:

foo =
"this is a string " + # this is a comment
"that is continued on a second line"

but that is slightly different from the original example.  Any ideas?

Paul