[Python-Dev] PEP 350: Codetags

Tue Sep 27 18:59:26 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> It has always been my choice to *only* use XXX. I hope there aren't
> any developers contributing to the Python core who use any others?

[Python-2.4.1]$ grep FIXME */*.c */*.py | wc -l
 12
[Python-2.4.1]$ grep TODO */*.c */*.py | wc -l
 17
[Python-2.4.1]$ grep XXX */*.c */*.py | wc -l
 525
> I honestly don't see much of a point for distinguishing different types;
> these are for humans to read and review, and different tags just makes
> it harder to grep.

I tend to use FIXME for smelly code, and a collection of TODO:s at the top
of the file for things that someone should work on some day... (which explains
some, but not all, of the non-XXX:es above...)
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