[Python-Dev] PEP 350: Codetags (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Sep 27 18:59:26 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:

It has always been my choice to only use XXX. I hope there aren't any developers contributing to the Python core who use any others?

[Python-2.4.1]$ grep FIXME /.c /.py | wc -l 12 [Python-2.4.1]$ grep TODO /.c /.py | wc -l 17 [Python-2.4.1]$ grep XXX /.c /.py | wc -l 525

I honestly don't see much of a point for distinguishing different types; these are for humans to read and review, and different tags just makes it harder to grep.

I tend to use FIXME for smelly code, and a collection of TODO:s at the top of the file for things that someone should work on some day... (which explains some, but not all, of the non-XXX:es above...)

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