From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T06:02:54+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby, python, perl, ...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:chris@cmb-enterprises.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Ruby, python, perl, ...
> 
> In article <3CAB5620.F1D693C1@path.berkeley.edu>,
>  Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Chris wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, but the real magic of """ is something like:
> > >
> > > >>> foo = """<a href="bar.html">here's a single quote mark</a>"""
> > > >>> foo
> > > "<a href=\"bar.html\">here's a single quote mark</a>"
> >
> > What about
> >
> > irb(main):001:0> foo = %{<a href="bar.html">here's a single quote
> > mark</a>}
> > "<a href=\"bar.html\">here's a single quote mark</a>"
> 
> You'd still have to escape out any } that might actually occur in the
> string.
> 
> Oh well, chalk it up one more of the peculiarities of Python I'm fond
of.

OK..how about:

foo = <<-XDFGDFNG
<a href="bar.html">here's a single quote mark</a>
XDFGDFNG

...so many variations...so little time ;-)