On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:54:06PM -0000, Alan Gauld wrote:

> There was a detailed thread on this recently either here
> or on usenet group comp.lang.python...

I checked the archives for this list but didn't see anything.  I'll
try the ng.  Thanks.

> The bottom line was to use string formatting and triple
> quoted strings...
> 
> msg = '''
> A very long string that overspills
> onto multiple lines and includes
> my name which is %{name}s
> and a number which is my age: %{age}d
> '''
> 
> print msg % vars()

This is great, thanks to you and to Bill.  Much appreciated.

mp
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