Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Mon Dec 17 17:10:37 EST 2007

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Patrick Mullen a écrit :
> On Dec 17, 2007 1:10 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
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>>Hem... May I remind you that Python doesn't have block comments ?-)
> 
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> I suppose we could argue semantics, since """ strings are actually
> processed,

You guessed !-)

> but they are basically block comments.

Nope, they are basically multiline strings. Their (not that wide AFAICT) 
use as block comments comes from both the docstrings stuff and the lack 
of block comments in Python.

(snip)

>>> However, inspection of a vast corpus of code might lead one
>>>to believe that any commenting capability was completely unnecessary.
> 
> 
> Lol!  Who uses them dern comments anyway?

Really, I wonder...

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