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Sun Aug 8 23:04:11 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047363.html

> Has anyone suggested the following?

Not AFAIK.

> Create a new kind of string, _not_ a docstring, to hold annotations, etc.
> 
> """@annotate whatever""" or even ""@" whatever"""

The first is a valid string literal now, and thus gets the same fate
as [decorators] -- lots of people get very uncomfortable at the
ambiguity of assigning a new meaning to something that was legal
syntax before (even if it was meaningless).

The second is not a valid string literal now -- doesn't that cause the
same problems for Leo as @decorators?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Python-Dev] Attribute strings?