You might be already aware of this, but besides using the backslash, the other way you can allow an expression to span multiple lines in Python is to enclose it

You might be already aware of this, but besides using the backslash, the other way you can allow an expression to span multiple lines in Python is to enclose it in brackets. I find this to be pretty unobtrusive. Often your line break will already be within a pair of brackets anyway.