how to comment lot of lines in python

[Rick Zantow]

Kent Johnson <kent at kentsjohnson.com> wrote in
news:44311ecd$1_3 at newspeer2.tds.net: 

> Rick Zantow wrote:
>> Kent Johnson <kent at kentsjohnson.com> wrote in news:44310867$1_1
>> @newspeer2.tds.net:
>> 
>>> Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>>>> Out of curiousity, is there a modern editor which *doesn't* allow
>>>> you to comment/uncomment a selected bunch of lines of code?
>>>>
>>> TextPad is my editor of choice but it doesn't have this feature.
>>>
>> 
>> I use TextPad all the time, and while it is true that the feature is
>> not built in, it's misleading to say it doesn't have it. It is
>> implemented by means of a macro definition. I assign a key to a
>> 'comment' macro (basically replacing regex ^ with '# ' for the
>> selected text) to do this. And of course I have a reciprocal
>> 'uncomment' macro as well. 
> 
> Thank you! I don't suppose you have any tricks to make it work with 
> UTF-8 data outside the cp1252 character set, do you?
> 

Sadly, I don't. TP claims Unicode support, but I'm not sure what they 
mean; it does seem to be restricted to cp1252.

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rzed