[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9 Mar, 14:05, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But you _can't_ profit from these conveniences, at least not the ? >> character. It's just garbage put in there for some others to interpret, >> meaningless to the interpreter. So it _always_ boils down to >> editor-support. > > I'm sorry I don't follow your logic. Meaningless to the interpreter, > yes, meaningless to the IDE or to me, no. I "_can't_ profit from these > conveniences"? Why ever not?
Exactly, the ? is meaningless to the language itself, it's only a comment sign - but what you want is """ 1. The WIP (Work In Progress) comment: A '?' placed in the preceding whitespace of a line as a means of quickly highlighting a line or block of code for special attention. """ Now tell me - how exactly do you highlight a text? That is solely part of the editor you use, either it will parse the ? - the same way it would parse a # fixme or # wip comment - and react accordingly, or it won't. But for python itself, it has no meaning whatsoever, and would just be a character to overread, introducing visual clutter. So - if you want that feature, patch your editor of choice to deal with that comments, make them added and removed with a key stroke, whatever - be my guest. But it has nothing to do with _python_ the language, so it doesn't belong there. Besides, I don't see how "quick highlighting of text" is something that needs to be persisted anyway - if it is quick, hightlight it within the editor until the file is closed. If not, it might be well worth a comment anyway why you think it needs special attention. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list