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[Python-Dev] Can we triple quoted string as a comment?

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.

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~Ethan~
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