"Well, that escalated quickly." :-) How did we get from a specific issue with docstrings and the unittest package's test reporting to multi-line comments? If this was Discourse that entire subdiscussion would have been flagged as off-topic and moved to its own thread.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:27:46AM -0700, Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer) > wrote: > > On 4/4/22 09:25, Paul Moore wrote: > > >On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 17:22, Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer) > > ><co...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > > >>>I would welcome a multiline comment format that didn't involve > > >>>docstrings. > > >>Err, sorry, I meant multiline string format. > > >I'm confused, what's wrong with """..."""? Triple quoted strings are > > >not exclusively for docstrings... > > >Paul > > > > That isn't my reading of PEP 257, I would be happy to be wrong about > this. > > PEP 257 says that all docstrings should use triple quotes. It doesn't > say that *only* docstrings should use triple quotes. > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3ULX4QF5WF6WBFT3KIIPXS2UI7OZUKRF/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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