wish: multiline comments

[Fredrik Lundh]

Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com> wrote:
> Not quite the same is it? A docstring will be put in the .pyc.
> A comment won't.

well, the compiler throws away strings that does
not appear in valid docstring positions.  if you put
this in a module:

class B:
    "this is class B"
    """"
okay. this is a 42 million line comment string.
etc etc etc
"""

and import it, the PYC file is smaller than you
may think.

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