String literals can span multiple lines by escaping newlines with backslashes, e.g.
hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\
Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\
significant.\n"
print hello
which would print the following:
This is a rather long string containing
several lines of text just as you would do in C.
Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is significant.