Re: IDLE comments

2009-06-20 Thread MRAB
Chris Rebert wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jason Gervich wrote: Why does IDLE use two hash marks for comments (##)? Most other editors (Geany, SPE) use a single hash mark (#) to designate comments. I would guess to distinguish its (usually block) comments from manually-added (usuall

Re: IDLE comments

2009-06-19 Thread Jason Gervich
Thanks, Chris. The best (and only) explanation I've heard so far. AS for as editing the source code, that's beyond my gnubyness. I thought there might be an easily accessible configuration file, but for the time I'll use it as is. I do wonder why in all these forum discussions about which Python

Re: IDLE comments

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jason Gervich wrote: > Why does IDLE use two hash marks for comments (##)? Most other editors > (Geany, SPE) use a single hash mark (#) to designate comments. I would guess to distinguish its (usually block) comments from manually-added (usually explanatory) comme

IDLE comments

2009-06-19 Thread Jason Gervich
Why does IDLE use two hash marks for comments (##)? Most other editors (Geany, SPE) use a single hash mark (#) to designate comments. How does one change IDLE to use just a single (#) hash mark for comments? Thanks, Jason Gervich Santa Cruz, CA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-