>Those characters have no syntactical meaning... ? Neither does # until you give it syntactical meaning. I must be missing what you mean.
> would, IMHO, make the language "dirty". Well I'm not a big fan of decorators so I know how you must feel. But # FIXME + a hack doesn't seem clean to me. And commenting off the bottom half of a long script with triple quotes is ugly and a pain and you can't indicate multiple alternate halt points as in the 'tutorial script' example I gave. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list