multiline strings the pep style guide recommends that each line of python code contain no more than seventy-nine characters--including spaces note pep ' seventy-nine-character line length is recommendationnot rule some python programmers prefer slightly longer line length in this bookwe'll strictly follow pep ' recommended line length whether you follow pep or choose longer line lengthsometimes you'll need to create string literals with more characters than your chosen limit to deal with long stringsyou can break them up across multiple lines into multiline strings for examplesuppose you need to fit the following text into string literalthis planet has--or rather had-- problemwhich was thismost of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time many solutions were suggested for this problembut most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paperwhich is odd because on the whole it wasn' the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy -douglas adamsthe hitchhiker' guide to the galaxy this paragraph contains far more than seventy-nine charactersso any line of code containing the paragraph as string literal violates pep sowhat do you dothere are couple of ways to tackle this one way is to break the string up across multiple lines and put backslash (\at the end of all but the