wish: multiline comments

[Adrian Eyre]

>> I would like to see multiline comments possible in some future
>> version of Python.

> Use multiline strings.

Not quite the same is it? A docstring will be put in the .pyc. A comment
won't.

Imagine (extreme example):

class A:
	# Okay. This is a 42 million line comment about what my class does
	# Yadda, yadda.
	.
	.
	.
	# The end
	pass	# :-)


class B:
	"""Okay. This is a 42 million line docstring etc.
	.
	.
	.
	"""
	pass


In one case, the .pyc generated is much bigger than the other. I not saying
that docstrings are bad, but they are NOT the same as comments, in that they
serve a purpose at runtime.

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