R. David Murray added the comment: > Oh, it looks like you are right: useless strings are already removed > during compilation. But it looks a little bit surprising to me to use a > multiline string for a comment. I prefer classic # comments.
I was surprised by this as well. I think the comment in _header_value_parser was originally a docstring and got moved around during editing. It should probably get changed to a block comment. I could have sworn that when I learned about the optimization it was in the context of documentation that specifically said the optimization was done so that triple quoted strings could be used as multi-line comments, but I cannot find it through google or guessing where I might have seen it in our docs, so perhaps I was imagining things. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17516> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
