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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

Seen in a code review (paraphrased):

image of a program which is estimating the size of an array by counting how many lines of source code were used to construct it

“Why does this break when you add comments in the middle?”

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Why would python even expose the current line number? What’s it useful for?

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On a serious note:

This feature is actually very useful. Libraries can use it create neat error messages. It is also very useful when logging information to a file.

You should however never ever parse the source code and react to it differently.

You underestimate the power of us, print debuggers.

Why wouldn’t it? Lots of languages do. In C++ you have __LINE__.

Because it doesn’t seem like a useful feature. The only occasion I imagine this could be helpful is with logging to the console to track when the function breaks, but even then - still trivial to replace.

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