justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Using comments as arguments in python.
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44 minutes agoThe add()
function (that is available in the source code) basically uses some built in debugging tools to find out where in the code the function is called, and then parses the comment from the file and uses it for adding stuff.
I’ve never tried (becuse why would you…) but something similar can probably be built in any interpreted language
It’s not something Python does by design
This specific use case? To make a meme, mainly ¯\(ツ)/¯
As for the components: Parsing comments have been used for stuff like type hints / formatting / linting, tho generally not at run time (afaik).
The tooling for finding out where something is called from can be used to give a better understanding of where things go wrong when an exception happens or similar, to add to logs.
I would say that in general you don’t need either functionality except for certain edge-usecases