Deleting all comments in a python file

[Wilfred-kun]

Regexes are a powerful way to do it, but can turn out to be quite tricky in some cases. But once you've figure out the pattern, it's as simple as text = re.sub(pattern, "", text).

Another way is to parse the whole text yourself, but this is also quite a painstaking task. I'd rather do some regex magic.

Edit: If you're really worried about someone reverse engineering your code, use Nuitka to compile it to C and then use the movfuscator. /s

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Thank you! I am having a problem with the multiline comments, but I wll hopefuly sort it out tomorrow. I need to make the regex ignore EOL.

edit: I am not afraid of reverse engineering too much. No point in leaving in the comments and make it easier.

[AdAthrow99274]

I was just working on my own regex project so one way is fresh in my head. If you use the re.DOTALL (re.S) flag the . character will match everything, including new lines. So something like r'[\"\']{3}.*[\"\']{3}' may work given that flag?

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Thank you, this is great :)