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authorKevin Van Brunt <kmvanbrunt@gmail.com>2019-03-01 18:44:32 -0500
committerKevin Van Brunt <kmvanbrunt@gmail.com>2019-03-01 18:44:32 -0500
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Updated docs about comments
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@@ -29,21 +29,13 @@ Simply include one command per line, typed exactly as you would inside a ``cmd2`
Comments
========
-Comments are omitted from the argument list
-before it is passed to a ``do_`` method. By
-default, both Python-style and C-style comments
-are recognized. Comments can be useful in :ref:`scripts`, but would
-be pointless within an interactive session.
+Any command line input where the first non-whitespace character is a # will be treated as a comment.
+Comments can be useful in :ref:`scripts`, but would be pointless within an interactive session.
::
- def do_speak(self, arg):
- self.stdout.write(arg + '\n')
-
-::
-
- (Cmd) speak it was /* not */ delicious! # Yuck!
- it was delicious!
+ (Cmd) # this is a comment
+ (Cmd) this # is not a comment
.. _arg_print: https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/blob/master/examples/arg_print.py