[Python-Dev] hash comments in interactive interpreter
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Fri May 21 11:11:46 EDT 2004
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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