putting JUNK at the end of a [.py] file

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Fri Feb 24 10:27:56 EST 2023


On 2/23/23 22:16, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 2/23/2023 7:21 PM, Hen Hanna wrote:
>>
>> in a LaTeX file,       after the (1st)       \end{document}     line,
>>        i can put any random Junk i want    (afterwards)   until the 
>> end of the file.
>>
>>
>> Is there a similar Method  for a    .py     file ?
>>
>> Since i know of no such trick,  i sometimes put this (below) at the 
>> end of a .py file.
>>
>>
>>
>> dummy= ("""              junk and more junk
>>                                        words in Dict
>>                              239  words in Dict
>>                      (((  notes or Code fragmetns  )))
>>               """ )
>>
>>
>>
>> **    maybe i don't need the     dummy=     but it looks better.
> 
> You can just put it in triple quotes, no need to assign the string to a 
> variable.  Or make each line a comment.
> 

Indeed, I work on a project that by convention puts editor instructions 
at the end of each file (which some might consider junk :-) ), like this:


# Local Variables:
# tab-width:4
# indent-tabs-mode:nil
# End:
# vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4:




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