John Roth wrote: [Here docs] >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.
I'm going to try some of the suggestions that others have floated but I think you've really tumbled to the core of my situation: Trying to take a Korn shell script and convert it as closely to line-for-line into Python as possible is Just Dumb. Jim -- "I regard NASCAR the same way I regard gay porn: I know it exists and I know some guys like it; I just don't want to see it." -- Z. B. Goode -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list