Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.022 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; ';-)': 0.03; 'definitions': 0.07; 'oh,': 0.09; 'pointless': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'agree.': 0.16; 'cares': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:comment': 0.16; 'subject:quoted': 0.16; 'subject:simple': 0.16; 'subject:triple': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'programming.': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'alone': 0.33; 'actual': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'either': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'our': 0.64; 'subject:. ': 0.67; 'between': 0.67; 'close': 0.67; 'nobody': 0.68; 'useful.': 0.68; '2015': 0.84; 'disagreement': 0.84; 'ian,': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=DfUKcgG51QsKUnnm85x8L52WJX+bWdqhjlmQm4SrL/M=; b=Sz4RaBZwkV/3FJH9FBG1Am8OsScdSvMuldmECXGa56fX2KZyR/1n09iXpWUA4Cc9bE ZO1FSj/g9VjbtAMY7okM2Nt5mDNMOMAj7JJpfo7aJgTg3OfZFnW76DIz556BGlKl+BAF aqOZoM575cHWTS619hn/5sIiXc7JO/+Hs5rT4318jVI8L2xZQR+L7mMYCBE5S2wHVkT7 B5NqnsLyYvKEfZhl9fWbgwMUdL2wizXfsUakmQoz4TxpfsGUYmc4kWy0tTDDL0pt9HdH 6ZiXIiWhuGJLto9aJAjYH3DvOjp/4SBJrjW/WmUtufvm+6z5MoIhMdIccap7ZsgNyrvc a59A== X-Received: by 10.50.118.97 with SMTP id kl1mr2441798igb.23.1428043246236; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:40:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <551e27c5$0$12904$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <3533816.ZYnZ2OzjCs@PointedEars.de> <3971951.908YQu3oQO@PointedEars.de> <1504323.jUKfeKbQsP@PointedEars.de> <2362875.FIK8ImHTJA@PointedEars.de> <1823599.Pr2V0MPR6q@PointedEars.de> <9781856.5cutuNVPEq@PointedEars.de> <3894022.plrvF2nHWu@PointedEars.de> <1905422.ubGH1B8UfE@PointedEars.de> <551e27c5$0$12904$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> From: Ian Kelly Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:40:05 -0600 Subject: Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why? To: Python Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 10 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1428043255 news.xs4all.nl 2853 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44621 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:88473 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > This sterile, pointless arguing about the minutia of pedantic definitions is > not even close to useful. Honestly Thomas, Ian, nobody cares any more. If I > were a betting man, I'd bet that neither of you can describe, in one > sentence, what is the actual disagreement between the two of you, let alone > why it matters for Python programming. Oh, either of us *could* describe it in one sentence; it's just that our descriptions of how we disagree would not agree. ;-)