Is it possible to break a long function name across multiple lines?

Question

Our development team uses a PEP8 linter which requires a maximum line length of 80 characters.

When I\'m writing unit tests in python, I like to have

Answer 1

No, this is not possible.

In most cases such a long name would be undesirable from the standpoint of readability and usability of the function, though your use case for test names seems pretty reasonable.

The lexical rules of Python do not allow a single token (in this case an identifier) to be split across multiple lines. The logical line continuation character (\ at the end of a line) can join multiple physical lines into a single logical line, but cannot join a single token across multiple lines.