Proposed {% "alternate comment syntax" %}

[pb@…]

What if, in addition to {% comment %}{% endcomment %}, the template system offered this alternative syntax:

    {% "Quoted standalone comment" %}

and/or

    {% """Quoted standalone comment""" %}

It's much more concise, vaguely Pythonic in a docstring kind of way, and (I think) unambiguous with regard to current tags.

[Pistahh]

We already have {% %} for tags, {{ }} for variables, I think comments are another totally different category, they would deserve an own syntax. Python comments start with # so I propose {# #} for template comments.

[James Bennett]

The {# #} syntax has already been proposed in #648, which was marked "wontfix".

[pb@…]

Yeah, I wanted to propose something that adds as little visual clutter as possible. FWIW I expect the triple-quote variant to be frowned upon, since the templates are explicitly are designed for non-programmers, and triple-quoting doesn't make much sense to anybody else.

Regular quotes (single or double) would be enough.

I definitely understand the desire to keep the template engine lean.

[Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@…>]

Or like in jinja:

{* comment *}

[Adrian Holovaty]

Fixed in [3931].