interesting gotcha

[Skaperen]

i have been putting comments in the triple-quoted string at the beginning of modules and functions.  this was the source of some errors that did not say what line number.   the error was putting backslash followed by "x[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]" as part of a comment about what backslash-X codes can be decoded by the function.  but since these were in a real string, python was really parsing it all and doing its own backslash-X decoding.  nice that it made me spend a half hour figuring this out because it would not tell me what line number.