E501: URLs not allowed in first line of assigned multiline strings
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Description
New in pycodestyle 2.4, a long-unbroken-string (e.g. URL) in the first line of a multiline string is now an error.
I suspect it is due to https://github.com/PyCQA/pycodestyle/pull/630 , as the most likely candidate due to it touching E501.
v = """http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/
http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/
"""
$ pycodestyle longlines.py
longlines.py:1:80: E501 line too long (86 > 79 characters)
Oddly, it has to be assigned, i.e. not a conventional docstring.
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Start at the E501 implementation in pycodestyle's single Python file and reproduce the assigned multiline-string example from the issue. Compare its handling with conventional docstrings, then add or update focused coverage so the expected treatment of long unbroken URLs is captured and the sample command reports the intended result.
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