I really want to like Python, in fact, I like most of it, functionally. However there is one major drawback that causes persistent irritation for me.
There is no official multi line comment support, and using ''' ''' is just complete garbage. Furthermore, I really dislike using the octothorpe, #, as a comment. It's extremely disappointing in comparison to other alternatives, such as a basic /* Comment, can be multi line too */ or --[[ Wow look, they made a modification to the single line comment to make it multi line, and -- already looks so much better than #, --]]
>There is no official multi line comment support yes there is. it's documented here: python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/ >using ''' ''' is just complete garbage that's the official multiline comment support. i don't know how to help you with stuff that triggers you except to tell you to go see a therapist or something.
>furthermore, I really dislike using the octothorpe... it's extremely disappointing it's an octothorpe. i don't think i've ever been more certain that you need therapy. it's an almost purely cosmetic choice.
if you wanted to bitch about binding time or typing or something about the design of the language itself, this would be an interesting conversation. but it sounds like you just don't like the look of some syntactic choices.
Michael Rivera
That's correct. I think it looks like shit. And you're wrong, that isn't multi line comment, it's a docstring. You discredited yourself, anyway.
That makes two problems. A hideous comment mechanism, and a lack of proper/ official multi line support.
Jose Thompson
Nobody, not even you read your shitty comments on your fizzbuzz implementation
I use single line comments on huge comment blocks JUST because of faggots like you
Wyatt Brooks
Samefag detected Butthurt levels detected --[ Get on my level --]
Jeremiah Sullivan
Tomato, tomayto, it's fucking multi-line comments you fucking autist
Brayden Russell
>crying about unimportant shit looks like you're the one who sucks
Juan Jones
I don't think you understand. A tomato and an onion are not the same thing. Both are foods. Both can be used in cooking. Both can be consumed. Both are not tomatoes. Both are not onions.
Docstring implementations are not full fledged multi line comments. Only a literal moron would think so.
>pic related
Jacob Bailey
want to try again?
the docstring is supposed to be made with multi line comments, made with the use of three quotation marks.
like i said, your bitching is very clearly superficial. if you had any opinion about the underlying design decisions of the language - something even marginally more substantive than which tokens are used for comments - then maybe this would be an interesting discussion. i've TA'd classes with first year undergrads who have had more insightful questions and critiques than this.
Kayden Thompson
>writing comments Shit coder detected.
Ayden Rodriguez
>Docstring implementations are not full fledged multi line comments. In what way? They are functionally the same.
Anyways it's clear you don't actually like python, considering you're so asshurt over comments
Colton Martinez
Maybe I'm a closet hater of the language. What can I say?
>Thinks a screenshot proves anything want to try again?
>literally grasping at insults >mfw
Owen Fisher
>Docstring implementations are not full fledged multi line comments. Only a literal moron would think so. But they are A multiline string placed anywhere but the usual docstring place will cause it to be ignored like a comment. It's literally the recommended way of doing multiline comments or disabling a chunk of code.
Austin Peterson
>What can I say? Probably construct a better argument. Even if you knew """ was the official multiline support, your only backing of not using it was saying it's complete garbage. Why is it complete garbage? If you answered that, you'd look less like a retard
Henry Ramirez
your right it was actually me but whatever you dont actually understand anything about the underlying design decisions of the language, so theres no point in talking to you.
Dylan Bennett
That's all he can do, bikeshedding.
Aiden Cox
Well at least you can be honest. Fair enough.
You want an answer? It'll be an opinion, but I'll bite.
I find it aesthetically irritating. For one, the tokens used aren't equidistant, and therefore don't match up, relative to the top and bottom. This looks like shit. Also it's just sort of garbled tossing three of the exact same small token together.
It's an opinion, but it's valid to me. I was simply stating in my OP that other languages have much better looking comment functions, and actually have non-docstring support for multi line usage, regardless of whether or not docstring usage can effectively do the same thing.
Jaxon Wood
>There is no official multi-line comment support except for the support that there is that I don't like
okay
Asher Garcia
I can see how the whitespace sensitivity might make you think python is a language for hopeless spergs but actually it's just about being pragmatic
get over whatever dumb bullshit complaints you have about quotes being too top heavy of a character
Andrew Richardson
OP, the # is the standard way of commenting in the majority of the unixy environments, python, didn't invent it, ruby didn't, perl didn't ... as long as your file accepts shebang definition, odds are # will be used for marking comments.
Yes, it is balls that python doesn't have multiline comments, however the majority of text editors have a "comment multiple lines" command. At least all the ones I use have (or can be extended to have). What are you editing you python files with that this is such a problem?
Liam Anderson
>hates python okay >for purely syntactical/stylistic reasons fuck off
At least present some valid complaints against python next time, please
Gavin Gomez
>Oh boo hoo he didn't have a complaint about some super duper important bug in the language or something major Nobody told you to come to this thread, butt bagel. It's fully valid, it's just an opinion. Fuck off.
Jason Barnes
>it's just an opinion A shit opinion >waah triplequotes are ugly for unspecified reasons and i'm too lazy to make my editor block comment with #
The following is a commented Whitespace program that simply prints "Hello, world!", where each Space, Tab, or Linefeed character is preceded by the identifying comment "S", "T", or "L", respectively:S S S T S S T S S S L T L S S S S S T T S S T S T L T L S S S S S T T S T T S S L T L S S S S S T T S T T S S L T L S S S S S T T S T T T T L T L S S S S S T S T T S S L T L S S S S S T S S S S S L T L S S S S S T T T S T T T L T L S S S S S T T S T T T T L T L S S S S S T T T S S T S L T L S S S S S T T S T T S S L T L S S S S S T T S S T S S L T L S S S S S T S S S S T L T L S S L L L
Dominic Rivera
>2014 >not writing self-explanatory code
Adrian Bennett
It's time to stop using notepad and use a real editor that can automatically format comments.
William White
No they aren't. A multiline string takes time to run, comments don't.
>your program runs 1% slower because you used strings as comments >you used strings as comments because your text editor can't comment things for you
Cameron Butler
Completely wrong. Strings that aren't referenced anywhere get discarded by the interpreter.
Carter Sullivan
two words: Civilization V.
play that shit then tell me python is fast
Cooper Phillips
You mean by the CPython byte compiler, but that's not in the language spec.
Nolan Jackson
>b-b-but someone might use an uncommon, poorly-writter compiler or interpreter that doesn't do an obvious optimization!
Blake Bennett
>I will use my hair dryer in the shower like it warns you not to because it has a safety switch that will protect me >I don't buy hair dryers without a retard safety switch
