"Matimus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Feb 1, 9:28 am, "Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> as the subject, I 'd like to know how to include a piece of text as input >> in >> the source code so that I do not need to read in data from files. I >> remember >> there is some thing like this in Perl, have no idea if python has the >> same >> thing? >> >> Thanks. > > You can just add a big string to your file. Triple quotes will help > with that. Of course, if you are going to be entering the data into > your python file, why don't you enter it using the most appropriate > data structure. Were intending to also append to the data in the file? > I'm sure you could figure something out to do that, but there is no > inherent feature that does that automatically. > > Matt Thanks you all for the answers.
The reason is that I am using pydot to deal with graphiz dot format data, which in my case is a very simple graph, just few lines. So i was trying to just embed this data within the code. One functiuon will read in the data and parse it as in "dot language" format. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
