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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

Image transcription:

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's quite cool. But I'm not sure what's the use case for it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What? There is no lib module.

$ python3.13 -c 'import lib'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    import lib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lib'
$
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OP wrote this add() function and has provided their own lib module in the source code.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Makes sence if u think about it. We use comments as docstrings that the interpreter has an understanding of. Python lets u fuck with its internals (at least in an immutable manner) so why not fuck with comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
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