how to include text data in source code?

[Sun]

"Matimus" <mccredie at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Feb 1, 9:28 am, "Sun" <a... at hut.at> wrote:
>> as the subject, I 'd like to know how to include a piece of text as input 
>> in
>> the source code so that I do not need to read in data from files. I 
>> remember
>> there is some thing like this in Perl, have no idea if python has the 
>> same
>> thing?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> You can just add a big string to your file. Triple quotes will help
> with that. Of course, if you are going to be entering the data into
> your python file, why don't you enter it using the most appropriate
> data structure. Were intending to also append to the data in the file?
> I'm sure you could figure something out to do that, but there is no
> inherent feature that does that automatically.
>
> Matt
Thanks you all for the answers.

The reason is that I am using pydot to deal with graphiz dot format data, 
which in my case is a very simple graph, just few lines. So i was trying to 
just embed this data within the code. One functiuon will read in the data 
and parse it as in "dot language" format.