About comments on main.py source code

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photoacoustic
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About comments on main.py source code

Post by photoacoustic » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:50 am

Dear all,
I would like to know if there is some recommendation about comments in source file.
Can I put much as I like without losing memory?
Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions
Best regargs

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Re: About comments on main.py source code

Post by Damien » Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:14 am

Actual comments starting with a hash # are removed by the lexer and take no RAM. They only take space in the file itself. So you can write as many as you like.

Strings/doc-strings as comments do take some amount of RAM when compiling so better to avoid them.

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Re: About comments on main.py source code

Post by photoacoustic » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:52 pm

Thank for the response

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Re: About comments on main.py source code

Post by kfricke » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:46 pm

Interesting to know. Can you recommend some '#'-based comment style for the generation of documentation from code? I am thinking of some drivers which might need some love and could generate nice "Read the Docs" documentation. I hope that is reasonable!?

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Re: RE: Re: About comments on main.py source code

Post by Damien » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:12 pm

kfricke wrote: Can you recommend some '#'-based comment style for the generation of documentation from code?
I'd put restructured text in the comments. Easy to extract (just strip leading #) and then pass to sphinx.

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