Problem Commenting within Filehandle Iteration

[Ben Finney]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > My preferred answer:
> > 
> >     if m:
> >         print line,
> > 
> > and get the lines back again later from your version control system.
>
> switching debugging statements on and off by rolling back to an
> earlier release strikes me as a somewhat misguided use of version
> control.

That didn't seem to me to be a debugging statement being disabled, but
rather a "let's try changing the program this way".

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Ben Finney