[Tutor] here documents

[Michael Powe]

Hello,

In perl, I create variables of fairly involved text using here
documents.  For example,

$msg = <<"EOF";
  a bunch of text here.
  ...
EOF

Is there an equivalent method in python?  I usually use this method
when creating help messages for scripts -- put all the text into a
variable and the 'print $msg' for the output.  I find it an easy way
to produce formatted text.

Now, I'm trying to switch over to python and want to recreate or adapt
my processes.

Thanks.

mp