Regarding coding style

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:29:42 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> Sure, but really, adding ONE LINE to the start of a file is hardly
>> "cluttering up" anything. Especially if it is in the doc string, like
>> this:
>>
>> """widgets.py: create, manage and destroy widgets.
>>
>> blah blah blah blah..."""
> 
> The bad part is that it's redundant information. That means that
> eventually, it's going to be wrong.


I withdraw my defense of including the file name.

After looking at both the Python standard library and my own scripts/
modules, I can see that it is a lot rarer than I thought it was, and even 
when I do it, it is almost always in help strings for quick and dirty 
scripts.



-- 
Steven