john peter wrote: > is there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing > the '#' character to the start of each statement i do not > want to execute (which gets old very quickly if one needs to > comment and uncomment several statements a couple of > times while "playing around with code" say during initial design)?
In addition to the approach Paul has suggested, you should also consider using a better editor, as most decent editors should have some kind of "block comment/uncomment" feature that prevents that operation from getting old very quickly... Scite, for example, lets me selected a block and hit Ctrl-Q to either comment or uncomment the block. (It does this by prefixing each line with #~ instead of just #, which allows it to detect when a line is already so commented and reverse the operation.) Other decent editors have their own approach. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list