Hello, I'm wondering what the rationale is for hash comments yielding a continuation prompt (PS2) in the interactive interpreter. I'd like to put such comments in interactive examples, but the output is hard to follow:
a = 5 # and now for some multiplication ... a * 10 50
What I would prefer can, ironically, be shown by the interactive interpreter emulator:
import code code.interact() Python 2.3.3 (#2, May 1 2004, 06:12:12) [GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (InteractiveConsole) a = 5 # and now for some multiplication a * 10 50
Another apparent inconsistency is that end of line comments don't behave this way:
a = 5 a * 10 # end of line comment 50
Is there something preventing this anomaly in the interactive interpreter from being corrected? -John -- http:// ift ile.org/
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Guido van Rossum -
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Michael Hudson