[Python-Dev] hash comments in interactive interpreter
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Fri May 21 15:29:51 EDT 2004
> 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
It's a bug -- but not easy to fix or it would have been fixed long
ago. Probably the lexter could be hacked to fix this, but be careful
that a change doesn't botch all the other special cases!
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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