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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by raldone01@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

Python allows programmers to pass additional arguments to functions via comments. Now armed with this knowledge head out and spread it to all code bases.

Feel free to use the code I wrote in your projects.

Link to the source code: https://github.com/raldone01/python_lessons_py/blob/main/lesson_0_comments.ipynb

Image transcription:

from lib import add

# Go ahead and change the comments.
# See how python uses them as arguments.

result = add()  # 1 2
print(result)
result = add()  # 3 4
print(result)
result = add()  # 3 4 5 20
print(result)

Output:

3
7
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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 195 points 3 days ago

IMO comments should never ever be parsed under any circumstances but I probably don't know enough to really speak on this

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

It's quite useful to parse comments and generate documentation from them, either as plain old hypertext or in your editor with LSP.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

That sounds fine if you have something reading the file independently. But the actual executable code should not be able to access its own comments.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

capability is fine. Conflation is stupid. You can also use code to erase itself, but thinking that's a good idea is generally wrong. But to remove that, you also remove the general ability to erase files.

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