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

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Mon Mar 25 22:22:39 CET 2013


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>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?

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