On Dec 21, 2:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thinking about unclosed multi-line quotes. > > When you open a multi-line quote (type '"""') what does your editor > do? Does it color the remainder of your text as a quote, or does it > color the line with the open quote as a quote and leave the rest of > your code alone? > > What do you want it to do? > > This is a tokenizer question in disguise, of course. The simple way to > handle it, which is what my editor sees, is for the tokenizer to > return the remainder of the text as one great UNCLOSED_MULTILINE_QUOTE > token. The alternative is to assume that the line with the unclosed > quote is in error and to continue to tokenize the rest. An editor > might blink or otherwise draw attention to the unmatched quote.
All the editors I use (Gedit, notepad++, boa contructor) will color the remainder of the document as a quote until I close it. I would say keep it that way, but maybe I'm only saying that since I'm so used to this behavior. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
