Coming from Perl

[Ben Finney]

Amer Neely <perl4hire at softouch.on.ca> writes:

> A question I have, if someone here is familiar with Perl, does Python
> have something like Perl's 'here document'?

I'm not sure exactly what behaviour you want, but Python accepts
literal strings to be triple-quoted (i.e. delimited by """ pairs or
''' pairs), which allows you to freely use literal line feed and quote
characters inside that string.

    <URL:http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html>

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Ben Finney