In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elliot Temple wrote: > > Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is > > case sensitive? I find that annoying. > > I do too. As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and it is > too late to change (it was even too late back in 1999 when it was > considered by Guido). I guess the most popular case-insensitive > language nowadays is visual basic (and VB.NET). > > > Also, why aren't there > > multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort? > > Again, just because there aren't and never were. There is no technical > reason (like for example a parsing conflict) why they wouldn't work in > python. That's why most python editors have added a comment section > command that prepends # to consecutive lines for you.
If it really bothers you that there's no multi-line comments, you could always use triple-quoted strings. I actually don't like multi-line comments. They're really just syntactic sugar, and when abused, they can make code very difficult to understand. Just wait until the day you're trying to figure out why some C++ function is behaving the way it is and you don't notice that a 50-line stretch of code is commented out with /* at the top and */ at the bottom. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list