heredoc and variables

[Michael Geary]

flupke wrote:
> 2) Consider following heredoc
>
> end_html="""</BODY>
> </HTML>"""
>
> I have to write it like this to avoid having an empty line added
> above AND below the actual string when using it.
> So this would produce the extra empty lines
>
> end_html="""
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> """
>
> I actually think that the last piece of code is more readable. Is
> there a way to stop that behaviour or is there a kind of trim
> function i can apply to get rid of the 2 extra lines?

If you can live with the newline at the end of the text (which in most cases
is what you want anyway), this is the cleanest way to do it:

end_html = """\
</BODY>
</HTML>
"""

Or, you can get rid of both newlines this way:

end_html = """
</BODY>
</HTML>
"""[1:-1]

-Mike