'''squire trelawneydr liveseyand the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about treasure islandfrom the beginning to the endkeeping nothing back but the bearings of the islandand that only because there is still treasure not yet liftedi take up my pen in the year of grace __ and go back to the time when my father kept the admiral benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof ''triple quotes multiple lines python has special trick precisely for convenient definition of longmultiline text if you start the text with "triple quotethen the special treatment of hitting the [|key is turned off this lets you enter text "free formwith natural line breaks the triple quote is three quote characters with no spaces between them the quote character used can be either one but the triple use at one end must match the one used at the other end