[Tutor] Lengthy copyright notices?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 15 20:47:00 EDT 2019


On 15/07/2019 23:34, Mats Wichmann wrote:

> Rule #1: it's all opinion in the end...

ditto...

> The common practice is that licence/copyright text is included as a
> comment in the code, not in a docstring.

I'd second that opinion. I don't like losing the copyright stuff
to a separate file - too easy to get lost. But I certainly don't
want it in my help() output either.

A comment solves both for the downside of some initial scrolling
when reading or editing the file


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