[Python-Dev] Am I allowed to use C++-style // comments?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jul 26 01:00:51 EDT 2017



On Tue, Jul 25, 2017, at 21:59, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/ says two things:
> 
> > Python versions greater than or equal to 3.6 use C89 with several select C99 features:
> > [...]
> > C++-style line comments

This section overrides further edicts in the document for Python 3.6+.

> 
> and also:
> 
> > Never use C++ style // one-line comments.
> 
> Which is it?


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