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[Terry Reedy]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1020875117.14656.python-list at python.org...
> Sure, but comments are basically free whereas the above creates an
anonmymous
> string which has to be garbage collected.

I once read, I believe, that free-floating (unbound) strings that do
not become doc strings are eliminated (in batch mode) during
compilation.

TJR