And I still think it's neat. :-)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 03/25/2013 02:16 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just realized that the Python peephole optimizer removes useless >> instructions like numbers and strings between other instructions, >> without raising an error nor emiting an error. Example: >> >> $ python -Wd -c 'print "Hello"; "World"' >> Hello >> >> As part of my astoptimizer project, I wrote a function to detect such >> useless instructions which emit a warning. I opened the following >> issue to report what I found: >> http://bugs.python.org/**issue17516 <http://bugs.python.org/issue17516> >> >> Different modules use long strings as comments. What is the "official" >> policy about such strings? Should we use strings or comments? >> >> (IMO a comment should be used instead.) >> > > Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure, but I believe Guido > himself has said that a neat feature of triple-quoted strings is their > ability to be used as comments. > > -- > ~Ethan~ > > ______________________________**_________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/**mailman/options/python-dev/** > guido%40python.org<http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org> > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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