"Jim Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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)
business?
The major issue here is that both ways of text substitution in Python are based on the C and C++ printf statement. Here documents are based on a much less disciplined use of variables; they use the local variables on the calling stack.
It would certainly be possible to write a module that substitutes the values of variables in the calling stack. Look at the inspect module in the Python Runtime Services section of the Python Library for the basic facilities you'd need to use to write such a module.
I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, though. It seems like it would be mostly useful in a style of programming that's quite foreign to the way Python wants to be programmed.
John Roth
Thanks,
Jim, Python no0b
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