[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: string bug?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Keith Nemitz wrote:

>
> On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> You could nest different kinds of comments, I guess, but I don't see 
>> how that would ever be useful.
>>
>
> I think of it as vitally useful. I'm always wanting to comment out a 
> chunk of code and then comment out a bigger chunk later. And using 
> comment strings is like using a screwdriver to open a paint can. Sure 
> it works.... but doesn't that screw up the auto-documentation feature 
> of python?
>
> {{
> bigger
> chunk
>
> {{
> chunk
> of
> code
> }}
>
> of
> code
> }}

#
# bigger chunk
#
#
#    # chunk of code
#    #
#    #
#    #
#
# of code
#

or...

if 0:
     bigger chunk
     if 0:
         chunk of code
     of code

Obviously, you would want your editor to support you with the first 
one.. the second one is easy enough to do by hand.

-bob
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