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Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines?

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines?
Date 2013-11-28 14:14 +1100
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:47:22 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > [A triple-quoted string is] not syntactically a comment, and I don't
> > think pretending triple-quoted strings are comments is good
> > practice. If nothing else, you'll need a special case if you want to
> > enclose something with existing triple-quotes.
>
> The CPython core devs disagree with you. Using bare strings for comments 
> is supported by Python, and the compiler strips them out at
> compile-time:

That's not the same as disagreeing with what I said above. Triple-quoted
strings are not syntactically comments, they're still syntactically
treated as string literals. The implementation detail of them being
stripped out doesn't change that.

Also, “is supported by Python” doesn't mean the developers agree with
the practice.

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Ben Finney

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Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 17:57 -0800
  Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 18:03 -0800
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-28 13:55 +1100
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-11-27 22:03 -0500
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-27 22:05 -0500
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      Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 17:22 +1100
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-28 10:08 -0500
  Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-28 13:47 +1100
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-28 03:02 +0000
      Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-28 14:14 +1100
  Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-11-27 21:55 -0500
  Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-27 21:59 -0500
    Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-28 03:58 +0000
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      Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 01:21 +1100
      Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-28 12:26 -0500
  Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-28 14:06 +1100
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