[Tutor] Multi-line statements with comments

[Gregor Lingl]

...
> 
> def removeComments(s):
>     return comment_re.sub('\n', s)    
> ###
> 

...

> 
> However, there's one big deficiency in the regular expression as it
> stands: what happens if we give it soething like this?
> 
> ###
> s = removeComments("hello # why doesn't this comment disappear?")
> print s
> ###
> 
> 
> So there's definitely room to improve this.
> 

Would you consider this to be an appropriate
proposition:

def removeComments(s):
        return comment_re.sub('\n', s+'\n')[:-1]

?

Gregor