What's the Pythonic way to store a data block in a Python script?

Question

Perl allows me to use the __DATA__ token in a script to mark the start of a data block. I can read the data using the DATA filehandle. What\'s the Pythonic wa

Answer 1

It depends on your data, but dict literals and multi-line strings are both really good ways.

state_abbr = {
    'MA': 'Massachusetts',
    'MI': 'Michigan',
    'MS': 'Mississippi',
    'MN': 'Minnesota',
    'MO': 'Missouri',
    }

gettysburg = """
Four score and seven years ago,
our fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation, 
conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
"""