I have a variable that is triple quoted which I have in Python:
my_prompt = """
Here goes a prompt, etc.
.....
"""
It gets messy to have them in my Python file one after another and I want a way to organize them. One idea I had was to save the my_prompt variable into a file and then source it. However, I am having troubles with this as something like
with open("my_prompt.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
my_prompt = f.read()
doesn't read as a variable. What are good practices and ideas for this? thanks.
Option 1: rename the file to my_prompt.py and import it as a module:
from my_prompt import my_prompt
assert my_prompt == """Here goes a prompt, etc.
.....
"""
Option 2: Store only the value in the file, then continue to read the file as you are. You can store the value to any variable you like, without putting a variable name in the file as well.
$ echo "Here goes a prompt, etc.
.....
" > my_prompt.txt
And the same Python code as you currently have:
with open("my_prompt.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
my_prompt = f.read()