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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

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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
32
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[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours 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.