> I was editing the tutorial just now and noticed the secondary prompt (...)
> in a situation where I didn't think it was appropriate:
>
> >>> # The argument of repr() may be any Python object:
> ... repr(x, y, ('spam', 'eggs'))
> "(32.5, 40000, ('spam', 'eggs'))"
>
> It's caused by the trailing colon at the end of the comment. I verified it
> using current CVS:
>
> >>> hello = 'hello, world\n' hellos = repr(hello) print hellos
> 'hello, world\n'
> >>> # hello:
> ...
> >>>
>
> Shouldn't the trailing colon be ignored in comments? Bug, feature or wart?
It's not the trailing colon. Any line that consists of only a comment
does this:
>>>
>>> # foo
...
>>> # foo
...
>>> 12 # foo
12
>>>
And yes, it's a wart, but I don't know how to fix it.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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