XXX

[David Bolen]

Brian Lee <senux at senux.com> writes:

> I'm newbie at Python programming. Sometimes I read ``XXX''
> character as comments in Python source code file. Does that
> mean something special? 

It's sort of a programmer convention to highlight something that needs
further attention or follow-up.  It's used all over, but although I'm
not sure if it originated in the Unix world, but that's where I
originally encountered it the most (kernel sources, etc...).

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