IDLE comments

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri Jun 19 23:51:39 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jason Gervich<gervich at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Why does IDLE use two hash marks for comments (##)? Most other editors
> (Geany, SPE) use a single hash mark (#) to designate comments.

I would guess to distinguish its (usually block) comments from
manually-added (usually explanatory) comments, but this is just
conjecture.

> How does one change IDLE to use just a single (#) hash mark for comments?

Edit its source code? The GUI doesn't appear to expose any option for it.

Cheers,
Chris
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