Python style - line continuation with strings?

Since adjacent string literals are automatically joint into a single string, you can just use the implied line continuation inside parentheses as recommended by PEP 8:

print("Why, hello there wonderful "
      "stackoverflow people!")

Just pointing out that it is use of parentheses that invokes auto-concatenation. That's fine if you happen to already be using them in the statement. Otherwise, I would just use '\' rather than inserting parentheses (which is what most IDEs do for you automatically). The indent should align the string continuation so it is PEP8 compliant. E.g.:

my_string = "The quick brown dog " \
            "jumped over the lazy fox"

This is a pretty clean way to do it:

myStr = ("firstPartOfMyString"+
         "secondPartOfMyString"+
         "thirdPartOfMyString")

Another possibility is to use the textwrap module. This also avoids the problem of "string just sitting in the middle of nowhere" as mentioned in the question.

import textwrap
mystr = """\
        Why, hello there
        wonderful stackoverfow people"""
print (textwrap.fill(textwrap.dedent(mystr)))