beginner wrote: > On Jul 31, 10:53 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> This is just a very simple question about a python trick. >> >> In perl, I can write __END__ in a file and the perl interpreter will >> ignore everything below that line. This is very handy when testing my >> program. Does python have something similar? >> >> Thanks, >> Geoffrey > > Thanks everyone for responding. It doesn't look like python has it. I > would definitely miss it. As Steve said, the nice thing about __END__ > is that things below __END__ do not have to have legit syntax. That > let me focus on the lines of code I am debugging and do not have to > worry about some bad syntax down the line. This feature is especially > handy if I am, saying, replacing modoules or changing data structures.
In emacs, I simply mark that portion of code and do M-x comment-region That's it. And I don't think a language should support things __END__ - commenting is enough. It's unfortunate that Python doesn't support multi-line-comments though. But as I said, that my Editor can handle for me. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
