Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2007-08-01, Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . >> I want to re-emphasize the "triple-quote it" tip mentioned >> earlier in this thread. I think the original questioner >> will find this quite satisfying, if I understand his situ- >> ation at all. >> >> *I* certainly have source code with embedded "junk" >> commented out as multi-line strings. > > I used to do that, but now that I use doctests so much it's > infeasible to comment out arbitrary code that way, since they > can't necessarily nest.
If you consistently use e.g. ''' for doc strings, you can use """ to comment out code blocks. I still think it's better to do test-driven programming though. Then you will very rarely have large blocks on non-working code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
