wish: multiline comments

[Tres Seaver]

In article <009901bf3c15$6d5c5290$4500a8c0 at thomasnotebook>,
Thomas Heller <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>AFAIK, python chokes on source files with more than
>32767 lines (or was it 65536)?
>But I never tried it.
>

[/home/tres] $ uname -a
Linux silver 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i586 unknown
[/home/tres] $ python
Python 1.5.1 (#1, Jan 31 1999, 17:30:49)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> f = open( 'foo.py', 'w' )
>>> for i in range( 100000 ):
...    f.write( 'x = 1\n' )
...
>>> f.close()
>>> ^D
[/home/tres] $ python foo.py
Memory fault (core dumped)
[/home/tres] $ gdb python core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
Core was generated by `python foo.py'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
#0  0x805f813 in PyNode_AddChild (n1=0x4005eff8, type=265, str=0x0,
    lineno=32768) at node.c:73
73              n = &n1->n_child[n1->n_nchildren++];
(gdb) where
#0  0x805f813 in PyNode_AddChild (n1=0x4005eff8, type=265, str=0x0,
    lineno=32768) at node.c:73
#1  0x805fa46 in push (s=0x80b9340, type=265, d=0x808fb30, newstate=1,
    lineno=32768) at parser.c:178
#2  0x805fbaf in PyParser_AddToken (ps=0x80b9340, type=1, str=0x9d3a588 "x",
    lineno=32768) at parser.c:263
#3  0x804f4eb in parsetok (tok=0x80ae1d8, g=0x8090390, start=257,
    err_ret=0xbffffc24) at parsetok.c:163
#4  0x804f3f1 in PyParser_ParseFile (fp=0x8094908,
    filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py", g=0x8090390, start=257, ps1=0x0, ps2=0x0,
    err_ret=0xbffffc24) at parsetok.c:113
#5  0x805bf5c in PyParser_SimpleParseFile (fp=0x8094908,
    filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py", start=257) at pythonrun.c:946
#6  0x805bdcd in PyRun_File (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py",
    start=257, globals=0x8095d68, locals=0x8095d68) at pythonrun.c:855
#7  0x805b5a6 in PyRun_SimpleFile (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py")
    at pythonrun.c:565
#8  0x805b235 in PyRun_AnyFile (fp=0x8094908, filename=0xbffffeb2 "foo.py")
    at pythonrun.c:444
#9  0x804f281 in Py_Main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffdf8) at main.c:286
#10 0x804ed22 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffdf8) at python.c:10
(gdb)

It GPFs on NT4 with 1.5.2, as well.

Tres.
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