Re: Python

c186282 <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500

Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.python
Organization	wokiesux
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On 12/16/25 20:54, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:45:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +0000, mm0fmf wrote:
>>
>>> On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>>
>>>> My issues with python are:
>>>> - It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see
>>>
>>> ''' and ''' are your friend
>>
>> Unless the block has triply-quoted strings inside it ...
> 
> Yeah, well. I've been burned more than once by someone who added
> 
> /* stupid comment */
> 
> someplace west of the 80th column in the code.

   Well ...... reflex ........   :-)

   Now most of my code lines have a "# WhatThisIs"
   comment at the end. I like to micro-document so
   I can remember what my own fuckin' code does
   a few years down the line. AMAZING how quickly
   the 'why' vanishes from the mind  :-)

   Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't
   matter which lang - is 'comments'.

   ANYway ... you CAN easily do block commenting
   in Python ... P3 anyway, not so sure about P2
   because I never used it.

   IF there's a P4 ... they really SHOULD accept "/*"
   as a start-comment.