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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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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Being able to get the line number is very different from comments being parsed.

Edit: didn't realize this was custom code built to be cursed.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You should look at how OPs example works first maybe

The python interpreter isn't parsing comments, the add() function is just getting the current line number from the call stack context, and using a regex to spit out the numbers to the right of the "#" on the current executing line of the source code.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah fair I was just assuming this was standard library, I see your point now.