[Python-Dev] Am I allowed to use C++-style // comments? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jul 26 01:00:51 EDT 2017

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017, at 21:59, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/ says two things:

> Python versions greater than or equal to 3.6 use C89 with several select C99 features: > [...] > C++-style line comments

This section overrides further edicts in the document for Python 3.6+.

and also: > Never use C++ style // one-line comments. Which is it?

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