converting from shell script to python

[Robin Munn]

Mathias Waack <mathias-usenet at valpo.de> wrote:
> "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com>
> wrote:  
>> Alternatively, you can substitute things from a
>> dictionary instead of a tuple:
>> 
>>    vars = {'ROOTDIR': '/usr/lib'}
>>    CLASSPATH = \
>>      "%{ROOTDIR}s/a/a.jar:%{ROOTDIR}s/b/b.jar:%{ROOTDIR}s/c/c.jar
>>      " % vars 
> 
> Didn't know that before. Its nice - thanks for the hint. 

All the gory details on using the % operator can be found here:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq-strings.html

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