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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
