I have a script in Perl that I need to rewrite to Python. The script contains __DATA__ at the end of the script, which enables Perl to access all the data after that through a file descriptor, like this:
usage() if ( !$stat or !defined($home) or !defined($base) or !defined ($sid) ); while (<DATA>) { s/%OB/$base/; if ( length($home) > 0 ) { s/%OH/$home/; } else { s/\/%OH$//; } if ( length($sid) > 0 && /%OS/ ) { s/%OS/$sid/; } elsif (/%OS/) { next; } s/%VR/$ver/; print; } __DATA__ # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi set -a # User specific aliases and functions export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:$PATH export EDITOR=vi export ORACLE_BASE=%OB export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/%VR/%OH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/opt/odbc/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib32 export CLASSPATH=/opt/java/lib/tools.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/ ojdbc14.jar:. ...... How do I do the same thing in Python? Alternatively, in Perl I can put an entire file into a string by using something like: $str=<<EOF This is all a single string, no matter how many lines do I put in it, but I do have to escape the special character EOF ; Is there a way to do the same thing in Python? The idea of the script is to generate $HOME/.bashrc for any automagically provisioned Oracle installation. -- http://mgogala.byethost5.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list