Easy "here documents" ??

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Mon Dec 20 15:30:02 EST 2004


Jim Hill <jimhill at swcp.com> wrote:
>  Nick Craig-Wood  wrote:
> >I prefer this
> >
> >   ... I'll have %(amount)s %(what)s
> >   ... for $%(cost)s please""" % locals()
> 
>  Looks pretty slick.  This might just be what I need.
> 
> >Its almost as neat as perl / shell here documents and emacs parses """
> >strings properly too ;-)
> 
>  Mmm...emacs...
> 
>  Thanks for the tip.

You are welcome!  I came to python after many years of perl too...

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