[Python-Dev] hash comments in interactive interpreter

[Michael Hudson]

John Belmonte <john at neggie.net> writes:

> 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:
[...]
> Is there something preventing this anomaly in the interactive
> interpreter from being corrected?

Lack of time and effort?  The parser is fairly hairy.

Cheers,
mwh

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