Can Python do Perl's print <<EOF; notation? - popen, subprocess works?

[yichun.wei at gmail.com]

Perl has the ability to do the following:

  print <<EOF;
  ...reams of text goes here...
  EOF

Is there a Python equivalent of the above Perl code?

This thread has previous discussion on the topic:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/14b5b084ebbcdc0e/b1788afc3150d280?lnk=st&q=python+EOF+perl&rnum=2&hl=en#b1788afc3150d280
we know one can use:

  print """var1 = %(var1)s,
             var2 = %(var2)s
             ... extra content..
         """ % vars()

However, when the code in the string was actually
        qsubcmds = """
  echo
  cd %(cwd)s
  %(cmds) %(args)
  rm -f %(files)s
        """ % vars()

in which %(cmd)s folks a subprocess, when this string was write to some
pipe, e.g.:

  QSUB = Popen(qsubcmds, shell=True, stdin=PIPE)
  print >> QSUB.stdin, qsubcmds
  (or Popen.communicate(qsubcmds))

the "rm -f " was not executed in my case.

The corresponding perl script runs fine:

  open(QSUB, "| $qsubcmds -") || die "kao";
  print QSUB <<End;
  echo
  cd $cwd
  $cmds $args
  rm -f $files
  End
  close QSUB || die "kou";
 
How can we manage this in Python?