Chapter 2 - Elementary Programming - Section 2.3 - Reading Input from the Console - Check Point - MyProgrammingLab - Page 35: 2.5

By using "\"

In some cases, the Python interpreter cannot determine the end of the statement written in multiple lines. You can place the line continuation symbol (\) at the end of a line to tell the interpreter that the statement is continued on the next line. For example, sum = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +/ 5 + 6 is equivalent to sum = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6