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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 26 17:11:12 CET 2013

And I still think it's neat. :-)

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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 <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 _______** Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev at python.org http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ guido%40python.org<http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org>

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