[Python-Dev] Can we triple quoted string as a comment? (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Mar 26 16:46:23 CET 2013

On 03/25/2013 02:16 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Hi,

I just realized that the Python peephole optimizer removes useless instructions like numbers and strings between other instructions, without raising an error nor emiting an error. Example: $ python -Wd -c 'print "Hello"; "World"' Hello As part of my astoptimizer project, I wrote a function to detect such useless instructions which emit a warning. I opened the following issue to report what I found: http://bugs.python.org/issue17516 Different modules use long strings as comments. What is the "official" policy about such strings? Should we use strings or comments? (IMO a comment should be used instead.)

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure, but I believe Guido himself has said that a neat feature of triple-quoted strings is their ability to be used as comments.

-- Ethan

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