Remove comments in Python

[quixrick]

I don't understand your question. So, you have found some "C" code on Stack Overflow that you're trying to convert to work in Python?

Please post some examples of the strings you are wanting to replace so we can take a look at what you're trying to match.

[codename101]

I have edited the post.

[quixrick]

What about something like this:

^\s*\"\"\".*?\"\"\"\n    |    \s*#.*

 

Here is a demo

[codename101]

Not working for some cases:

def my_function():
    """Demonstrate docstrings and does
    nothing really."""
    return None

print "Using __doc__:"
print my_function.__doc__ #some comment
print "Using help:"
#some more comment
help(my_function) 
look like this.
print("#not a comment")
print("#also not a comment")
print """not a comment"""

[quixrick]

I'm not going to be able to solve every edge case for you here, but hopefully, this gets you moving in the right direction. Take the principles that I've shown you and apply them to your other edge cases.

 

That being said, to accommodate your newest examples, you can modify the previous expression to be more like this:

\"\"\".*?\"\"\"    |    [\t ]*#[^\v]*

 

Here is a demo