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From: Martin v. Loewis on 2 Apr 2010 16:44
Christopher Roach wrote:
> I have a script that I am working on to process a bunch of data. A
> good portion of the Tk-based GUI is driven by a large set of YAML data
> and I'd love to store that data inside of the script so that I can
> send just a single file to my colleague. Ruby has a mechanism for
> doing this whereby I can load the data by doing a YAML.load(DATA)
> which loads everything in the file after the __END__ keyword (for a
> better explanation of this see http://bit.ly/V9w8m). I was wondering
> if anyone knew of a way to do something similar in Python?

The common approach is to write

DATA="""\
yaml data here
"""

If you want to process the data in the same file, you can't really put
them at the end of the file - in fact, putting them at the beginning is
more common.

Regards,
Martin
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