dmh2000 wrote: > I recently complained elsewhere that Python doesn't have multiline > comments. i was told to use triple quoted strings to make multiline > comments. My question is that since a triple quoted string is actually > a language construct, does it use cause a runtime construction of a > string which is then discarded, or is the runtime smart enough to see > that it isn't used and so it doesn't construct it? > > example > > def fun(self): > """doc comment > comment line 2 > """ > > x = 1 > y = 2 > > """does this triple quoted string used as a comment > cause something to happen at runtime beyond > just skipping over it? Such as allocation of memory for a string > or worse yet garbage collection? or not? > """ > z = x + y It seems to discard the second triple quoted comment (the first one is kept around as a doc string). I created two scripts, one with the second triple quoted string, the other without. The compiled version is *almost* the same (one byte difference which, if I am not mistaken, comes from the different filename embedded in the .pyc file).
30/01/2006 09:34 PM 327 triple.py 30/01/2006 09:35 PM 359 triple.pyc 30/01/2006 09:34 PM 96 triple2.py 30/01/2006 09:35 PM 358 triple2.pyc André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
