Undesired split after multiline triple quoted string.

[iago-lito]

I've got an undesired split after multiline """ string when searching the sea monster in yesterday's AoC:

pattern = """
                  # 
#    ##    ##    ###
 #  #  #  #  #  #   
""".strip(
    "\n"
)

I'd rather keep what I initially wrote:

pattern = """
                  # 
#    ##    ##    ###
 #  #  #  #  #  #   
""".strip("\n")

I'm also suprised because none of the above hits the max width, any idea why the splitting occurs?

[ichard26]

Duplicate of #256.

Why the line break?

Black considers multiline strings as always not fitting a single line (per definition), so it tries to break the line if possible. I agree that in this case the result is sub-optimal. I'll see what I can do to improve this.

#256 (comment)