[issue41184] Reconciling IDLE's Comment Out Region / Uncomment Region with PEP 8 guidelines for commenting

2020-07-01 Thread Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum added the comment: The IDLE feature should not change, for all the reasons Terry have. I am quite done with changes to PEP in order to settle arguments, and I do not believe this convention needs mentioning in that PEP. Remember there is text in PEP 8 reminding readers to

[issue41184] Reconciling IDLE's Comment Out Region / Uncomment Region with PEP 8 guidelines for commenting

2020-07-01 Thread Terry J. Reedy

[issue41184] Reconciling IDLE's Comment Out Region / Uncomment Region with PEP 8 guidelines for commenting

2020-07-01 Thread Anthropologist
New submission from Anthropologist : IDLE's Comment Out Region formatting tool currently adds two octothorpe characters followed by no spaces. The Uncomment Region tool removes up to 2 octothorpes but does not remove spaces. The Python Style Guide (PEP 8) specifies that: "An inline comment