[Tutor] here documents

[John Purser]

I'd like to thank everyone who posted on this thread.  I was reading a Korn
shell manual the other day and could not figure out what a "here" document
was.  I'm going to take another run at it with this conversation in mind!
Sometimes I can't see the path until I know where it goes.

John Purser 

-----Original Message-----
From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Powe
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 14:55
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: [Tutor] here documents

Hello,

In perl, I create variables of fairly involved text using here
documents.  For example,

$msg = <<"EOF";
  a bunch of text here.
  ...
EOF

Is there an equivalent method in python?  I usually use this method
when creating help messages for scripts -- put all the text into a
variable and the 'print $msg' for the output.  I find it an easy way
to produce formatted text.

Now, I'm trying to switch over to python and want to recreate or adapt
my processes.

Thanks.

mp
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