[Idle-dev] IDLE comments

[Michael Foord]

Tal Einat wrote:
> 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 actually don't know. I find that it's rather useful since I usually
> use the commenting function to comment out blocks of code, and having
> these commented with "##" differentiates them from comments which I
> write manually.
>   

+1 this is exactly how I use it.

Michael
>   
>> How does one change IDLE to use just a single (#) hash mark for comments?
>>     
>
> Take a look at EditorWindow.comment_region_event in
> idlelib/EditorWindow.py. The "##" is hard-coded; just changing it to
> "#" should work (not tested).
>
> - Tal Einat
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