Defining constant strings

[Peter Otten]

Hans wrote:

> I want to define a couple of constant strings, like in C:
> #define mystring "This is my string"
> or using a const char construction.
> 
> Is this really not possible in Python?

No, this is not really not possible in Python:

$ ls
preprocess.pyp
$ cat preprocess.pyp
#define MYSTRING "Hello, world"
def f():
    print "Goodbye, " MYOTHERSTRING
print MYSTRING
f()
$ gcc -DMYOTHERSTRING="'sanity'" -xc -E preprocess.pyp -o preprocess.py
$ python preprocess.py
Hello, world
Goodbye, sanity
$

:-)

Peter