How do I handle #

[Michael Sperlle]

I need to write out a file containing the # comment. When I try to specify
it as part of a literal, everything afterward turns into a comment.

I finally created a file containing the #, read it in, and used the
resulting variable as part of the string I created.

But that is so kludgy, even a newbie like me is ashamed to use it, though
I did.

Supposedly, I can us \x followed by the hex equivalent and somehow make
that work.

Can anybody give an example of this; my attempts failed.

Or is there something simpler? There must be.

[Irmen de Jong]

Michael Sperlle wrote:

I need to write out a file containing the # comment. When I try to specify
it as part of a literal, everything afterward turns into a comment.

I finally created a file containing the #, read it in, and used the
resulting variable as part of the string I created.

But that is so kludgy, even a newbie like me is ashamed to use it, though
I did.

Supposedly, I can us \x followed by the hex equivalent and somehow make
that work.

Can anybody give an example of this; my attempts failed.

Failed in what strange way?

I don't see a problem at all:

open("bla.txt",'w').write("# some line with a hash comment\n")
open("bla.txt").read()

'# some line with a hash comment\n'

--Irmen

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Em Sáb, 2006-03-25 Ã*s 00:46 +0000, Michael Sperlle escreveu:

I need to write out a file containing the # comment. When I try to specify
it as part of a literal, everything afterward turns into a comment.

$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar 6 2006, 10:12:24)
[GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

print "hi # hi" hi # hi print 'hi # hi' hi # hi print r"hi # hi" hi # hi print u"hi # hi"

hi # hi

What's up?

--
Felipe.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Michael Sperlle wrote:

I need to write out a file containing the # comment. When I try to specify
it as part of a literal, everything afterward turns into a comment.

"turns into a comment" in what sense ? from your description, it sounds
like a bug in your editor's syntax highlighter. Python itself definitely won't
look for comment markers inside string literals.

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[Michael Sperlle]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:06:59 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Michael Sperlle wrote:

I need to write out a file containing the # comment. When I try to
specify it as part of a literal, everything afterward turns into a
comment.

"turns into a comment" in what sense ? from your description, it sounds
like a bug in your editor's syntax highlighter. Python itself definitely
won't look for comment markers inside string literals.

Thanks, I just tried it again and it worked. I must have had a misplaced
bit.