Jim Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done some Googling around on this and it seems like creating a here > document is a bit tricky with Python. Trivial via triple-quoted strings > if there's no need for variable interpolation but requiring a long, long > formatted arglist via (%s,%s,%s,ad infinitum) if there is. So my > question is: > > Is there a way to produce a very long multiline string of output with > variables' values inserted without having to resort to this wacky > > """v = %s"""%(variable)
I prefer this >>> amount = 1 >>> cost = 2.0 >>> what = 'potato' >>> print """\ ... I'll have %(amount)s %(what)s ... for $%(cost)s please""" % locals() I'll have 1 potato for $2.0 please >>> Its almost as neat as perl / shell here documents and emacs parses """ strings properly too ;-) Note the \ after the triple quote so the first line is flush on the left, and the locals() statement. You can use globals() or a dictionary you might have lying around instead which is much more flexible than perl. You can even pass self.__dict__ if you are in a class method so you can access attributes. >>> class A: pass ... >>> a=A() >>> a.amount=10 >>> a.what="rutabaga" >>> a.cost=17.5 >>> print """\ ... I'll have %(amount)s %(what)s ... for $%(cost)s please""" % a.__dict__ I'll have 10 rutabaga for $17.5 please >>> -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
