Easy "here documents" ??

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Dec 19 18:08:14 EST 2004


Scott David Daniels wrote:

> And if you enjoy building insecure stuff, try:
>
>     def fix(text, globals_=None, locals=None, quote='"'):
>         d = (globals_ or locals or globals()).copy()
>         source = text.split(quote)
>         source[1::2] = (str(eval(expr, d, locals or d))
> for expr in source[1::2])
>         return ''.join(source)
>
>
>     amount = 1
>     cost = 2.0
>     what = 'potato'
>     print fix("""I'll have "amount" "what"s
>            for "'$%.2f' % cost"s please""", locals())

And if you prefer not to type so much:

def I(*args): return "".join(map(str, args))
def F(v, fmt): return ("%" + fmt) % v

print I("I'll have ", amount, " ", what, "s for $", F(cost, ".2f"), "s please")

</F> 






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