Docstrings considered too complicated

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 08:09:20 EST 2010


On 03/03/2010 04:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Or one can simply use *reason*: what justification is there for putting 
> comments in strings at the top of the function? The only one I can see is 
> if you are writing for an embedded device, you may want to remove doc 
> strings to save memory -- and even that is implementation dependent.

Python already have a well-defined mechanism to remove docstrings with
the -O flag; there is really no other reason but plain ignorance and
inflexibility to think in other language than
<insert-your-first-language-here>.



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