Easy "here documents" ??

[Jim Hill]

Nick Craig-Wood  wrote:

>Jim Hill <jimhill at swcp.com> wrote:
>>  Is there a way to produce a very long multiline string of output with
>>  variables' values inserted without having to resort to this wacky
>>  """v = %s"""%(variable)

>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.


Jim
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