On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:51 PM, goldtech <goldt...@worldpost.com> wrote: > On Apr 27, 7:33 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> goldtech wrote: >> > Hi, >> >> > This is undoubtedly a newbie question. How doI assign variables >> > multiline strings? If I try this i get what's cited below. Thanks. >> >> >>>> d="ddddd >> > ddddd" >> >>>> d >> > Traceback (most recent call last): >> > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> >> > NameError: name 'd' is not defined >> >> Use a triple-quoted string literal: >> >> >>> d = """ddddd >> ... ddddd""" >> >>> d >> 'ddddd\nddddd' > > Only seems to work when there's a '... ' on the 2nd line. I need a way > to assign large blocks of text to a variable w/out special formatting. > Thanks.
The '...' is the interpreter's way of telling you that you are in a block, e.g. a function definition, with statement, etc. The '\n' you see in the middle of the string is the newline character. If you try to print the string, the expected happens: >>> d = """dddddddddddddddd ... ddddddddddddddddddddddd""" >>> d 'dddddddddddddddd\nddddddddddddddddddddddd' >>> print(d) dddddddddddddddd ddddddddddddddddddddddd Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list