2 new comment-like characters in Python to aid development?

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Mar 9 09:05:29 EST 2007


> It sounds like other Python users *do* like to do the kind of things I
> suggested, but seasoned users would rather rely on macros and features
> of specific editors. Unfortunately, to a newbie like myself, these
> seem like obscure 'tricks' to be mastered rather than simple built-in
> conveniences that any newbie can profit from.

But you _can't_ profit from these conveniences, at least not the ?
character. It's just garbage put in there for some others to interpret,
meaningless to the interpreter. So it _always_ boils down to
editor-support.

Now obviously _one_ scheme supported by all editors would be a great thing -
so one could argue that a well-defined PEP that suggests a certain comment
style that allows for your desired functionality would be a good thing.

Diez




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