Tom Plunket wrote:
> boilerplate = \
> """
[big string]
> """
>
> return boilerplate % ((module,) * 3)
>
> My question is, I don't like hardcoding the number of times that the
> module name should be repeated in the two return functions. Is there
> an straight forward (inline-appropriate) way to count the number of
> '%s'es in the 'boilerplate' strings? ...or maybe a different and more
> Pythonic way to do this? (Maybe I could somehow use generators?)
>
> thx.
> -tom!
Of course..
>>> stuff = {'lang': 'python', 'page': 'typesseq-strings.html'}
>>> print """I should read the %(lang)s documentation at
... http://docs.%(lang)s.org/lib/%(page)s""" % stuff
I should read the python documentation at
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
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- Justin
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