Multiline string

2 snippets across 2 stacks — JavaScript, Python

JSJavaScript

Template Literals

syntax

`text ${expression} text`

example

const item = "coffee";
const price = 4.5;
console.log(`One ${item} costs $${price.toFixed(2)}.`);

const multiline = `Line one
Line two
Line three`;
console.log(multiline);

output

"One coffee costs $4.50."
"Line one\nLine two\nLine three"

Note Backtick strings support embedded expressions and multiline content without escape characters.

PYPython

Multiline Strings

PY · Strings

syntax

"""text
spanning lines"""

example

query = """
    SELECT name, email
    FROM users
    WHERE active = true
""".strip()
print(query)

output

SELECT name, email
    FROM users
    WHERE active = true

Note Triple-quoted strings preserve all whitespace and newlines. Use textwrap.dedent() or .strip() to control leading/trailing space.