Embedded comments in Python?

[Irmen de Jong]

Ernie wrote:

> Hi,
> Whats the legal way in Python to embed comments in Python code? 
> Example:
> 
> def foo(a <:int>, b <:float>): <:array>
>      return [a, b] 
> 
> Want the CPython interpreter to ignore the <:int>, <:float> and
> <:array>(this one can be written as #array). Using triple quoted
> strings would be  longer and is invalid syntax. This would be
> extremely useful for those who write tools for processing Python
> scripts. In C/C++, this would be no problem with /* */.

Why not:

def foo(a,b):      # (a:int,b:int)-->array
     return [a,b]

That should be almost as easy to generate/process?

--Irmen