On 2005-09-26, Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :Objection: I aesthetically dislike for the comment to be terminated > with <> in the empty field case. > > :Defense: It is necessary to have a terminator since codetags may be > followed by non-codetag comments. Or codetags could be limited to > a single line, but that's prohibitive. I can't think of any > single-character terminator that is appropriate and significantly > better than <>. Maybe [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be a terminator, but then > most > codetags will have an unnecessary @. > > ----
What about allowing a blank line between codetag and following comment as valid terminator of codetag? ie: # NOTE: see spec xyz for Transport Protocol description # how many times to retry open of a recordset DB_OPEN_RETRYS = 3 Also if the codetag is immediatly followed by code, all the commentlines from start of the tag to the beginning of code could be considered part of the codetag. # TODO: catch possible exception here # (in case someone deletes file) f = open("data") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list