ketulp> Can I comment a group of statements together i.e
ketulp> If I a 4 statements say:
ketulp> i=1
ketulp> i+=1
ketulp> print i
ketulp> print i+1
ketulp> Instead of commenting each satement iindividually by # is there
ketulp> something which allws me to comment these 4 statements in one go
ketulp> as in C++ using /*...*/
Many people use triple-quoted strings for this:
"""
i=1
i+=1
print i
print i+1
"""
Though there's always the corner case where there's already something triple-quoted in
the segment you want to comment/quote out.
If we had string-delimited quoting a la mime, we could solve that. E.g.,
q'arbitrary string'<this is '''quoted''' and """triple is ignored""" ...>'arbitrary string'
or
Q'arbitrary string'
<this is '''quoted''' and """triple is ignored""" ...>
'arbitrary string'
Where the upper case Q signals the syntax that the line tail after the delimiter is ignored.
(thus the second quote above also includes the \n at the end of the quoted < ...> line)
thus
Q'XXX'
i=1
i+=1
print i
print i+1
'XXX'
and then no problem to do:
Q'YYY'
Q'XXX'
i=1
i+=1
print i
print i+1
'XXX'
'YYY'
(The single quotes are for readability, not part of the actual quoting delimiters)
You could deal with the final-escape char problem if you had a no-escapes raw string
version of this. Maybe signal that with double quoted delimiter strings, e.g.,
q"+++"this ends in backslash\"+++"
which would define the same string constant as 'this ends in backslash\\'
It's not a comment, strictly speaking, however it generally achieves the
desired results. Even less comment-like is "if False:":
if False:
i=1
i+=1
print i
print i+1
That has the disadvantage that you need to reindent the lines of interest.
The other side of the coin is that it's sometimes useful to write
if True:
# .. pasted code that has indentation
"if True" is also handy to defer processing in interactive mode, e.g.,
... print 'hi'
... print 'ho'
...
hi
ho
That's my clpy quota for today ;-)
Regards,
Bengt Richter
