Re: ANN: gui_support, a convenience library for wxPython

**Stef Mientki** · Oct 23 '08, 09:15 PM

Glenn Linderman wrote:

On approximately 10/23/2008 12:59 PM, came the following characters
from the keyboard of Stef Mientki:

>I'm no expert I thought a three-quoted string was called a "doc
>string", isn't that so ?

>
No, the docstring is the first string after a function or class
definition, that is displayed interactively by "help name", and used
for documentation of the function or class.

8. Compound statements

http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#function-definitions

Compound statements contain (groups of) other statements; they affect or control the execution of those other statements in some way. In general, compound statements span multiple lines, although i...

Footnotes [3] & [4]
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The proper name for three-quoted strings is triple-quoted string:

2. Lexical analysis

http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#id7

A Python program is read by a parser. Input to the parser is a stream of tokens, generated by the lexical analyzer(also known as the tokenizer). This chapter describes how the lexical analyzer prod...

>
Often docstrings are expressed as three-quoted strings, because they
want to exceed a single line.
>

Glenn,
thanks for the clarification,
English is not my first language, nor is Python ;-)
I already updated the webpage.

cheers,
Stef