Python development tools

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Bruno Desthuilliers writes:

> [...]
>
>> and it ends multi-line strings at single quotes.
>
> it chokes on unbalanced single quotes in triple-single-quoted
> strings, and on unbalanced double-quotes in triple-double-quoted
> strings, yes. Given that I never use triple-single-quoted strings
> (and don't remember having seen such a thing in the thousands of
> third-part .py files I've read so far), I'd qualify this as at
> most a very minor annoyance. Not having proper python-shell and
> pdb integration is wwwwaaaayyyy more annoying IMHO.

My formulation was unfortunate.  What doesn't work (at least for me)
is something like

"""This is a docstring in which some "variables" are quoted."""

Here, "variables" doesn't seem to belong to the docstring for
python-mode.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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