On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Michael Foord<fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > Tal Einat wrote: >> >> Jason Gervich wrote: >> >>> >>> Why does IDLE use two hash marks for comments (##)? Most other editors >>> (Geany, SPE) use a single hash mark (#) to designate comments. >>> >> >> I actually don't know. I find that it's rather useful since I usually >> use the commenting function to comment out blocks of code, and having >> these commented with "##" differentiates them from comments which I >> write manually. >> > > +1 this is exactly how I use it.
And this is how it's meant to be used. Quickly comment or uncomment a section of code. Invaluable. PS. Emacs does this too. I think there it was invented by Tim Peters. It is done so that the auto-indent functionality *ignores* the indentation of comments starting with ##, but assumes that comments starting with #+space are meant to align up properly with the surrounding code. (I don't know if IDLE uses this rule too.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
