John Coleman wrote: > Greetings, > I am currently trying to learn Python through the excellent > "Learning Python" book. I wrote my first non-trivial program, which > began with several comment lines. One of the comment lines began with > '#hash'. IDLE doesn't colorize it as a comment line but instead colors > the word 'hash' in purple as if it were a key word. Wierd. The behavior > seems easy to trigger: Just open up a new window in IDLE and enter > these two lines: > > #This is a test > #hash should still be a comment line > > Then, after saving, the second line is not colored as a comment line > though the first is. > Is this a bug, or do comment lines which begin with #hash have some > special meaning? > My program ran fine, so it seems that the interpreter itself is > ignoring the line. > > -John Coleman
It isn't just #hash, but also things like #dict, #int, #len at the start of a comment line which defeats IDLE's colorization algorithm. Interestingly, things like #while or #for behave as expected so it seems to be built-ins rather than keywords which are the problem. To answer my own question - this is pretty clearly a (harmless) bug. -John Coleman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
