Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> But why remove it? It is in the source code.

Because traditionally, "if 0: <suite>" has been used as a way to comment out 
code while leaving syntax highlighting in place.  The expectation is all the 
code effectively ceases to exist, just like a comment.

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