Break a long assignment into two lines in Python

Question

I have the following code:

This.is.a.supper.long.name = This.is.another.supper.long.name

Currently the only method I know is to escape the newline:

This.is.a.supper.long.name = \
    This.is.another.supper.long.name

Is there any elegant solution to this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '15 at 07:27

There are several approaches.

 common = This.is
 common.a.supper.long.name = common.another.supper.long.name

If that doesn't help, you can

 name = This.is.another.supper.long.name
 This.is.a.supper.long.name = name

or

 setName(This, getName(This))

where the methods allow to hide the long access path. This becomes even more readable when you can change This:

 This.setName(This.getName())

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