dmh2000 wrote: > I recently complained elsewhere that Python doesn't have multiline > comments. It seems you have a bad editor if it can't conveniently add and remove comment markers for arbitrary blocks in your source. (Maybe you just didn't find this feature.)
That every comment line begins with a special symbol just adds clarity. It's a bonus. C++ introduced // as comment symbol for this purpose (but was stuck with /* and */ due to backward compatibility reasons). Ada, while otherwise similar to Pascal, adopted -- to end of row instead of (* and *) etc. An editor that adds/removes '# ' in the beginning of each marked line is fairly bullet proof. Adding e.g. /* to the beginning of a block you want to comment out, & */ to the end, breaks if you have /* */ style comments in the block! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
