can regular ol' python do a php include?

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:00:08 GMT, John Salerno <johnjsal at nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
>> you don't even need anything from the standard library to inserting output
>> from one function into given text...
>>
>>     text = "... my page with %(foo)s markers ..."
>>
>>     print text % dict(foo=function())
>
>Wow, thanks. So if I have a file called header.html that contains all my
>header markup, I could just insert this line into my html file? (which I
>suppose would become a py file)
>
>print open('header.html').read()
>
>Not quite as elegant as include('header.html'), but it seems like it
>would work.


def include(filename):
    print open(filename).read()

include('header.html')

Behold, the power of a general purpose programming language.

Jean-Paul