On 2007-08-02, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
But then I couldn't use """ in my docstrings! ;) Actually, I wound up converting all my multiline doctests to use concatenation instead, since they were ruining my syntax highlighting performance in Vim. -- Neil Cerutti We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement. --Richard J. Daley -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
