multi-quoted strings for HERE documents

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hey people,

    At work I do a mix of Perl and Python. I'm a big fan of the latter.
However, there's one thing that I like in Perl that I haven't quite gotten the
same feel out of Python yet. That would be HERE documents. 

ie. 

print<<EOF;
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>cell contents</td>
    </r>
</table>
EOF

    Now, I can get close in Python with multi-line strings, like so...

print """
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>cell contents</td>
    </r>
</table>"""

    But, there's an initial newline in the output because of where the
beginning quotes are. I can put the quotes on the next line to avoid that...

print \
"""<table>
etc

    But then the block isn't really lined-up the same as the output will look
like. It's a minor thing, I know, but it bugs me. 

    Does anyone have a better way of doing this?

    Mike

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