[Python-Dev] Attribute strings?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Has anyone suggested the following?

Not AFAIK.

> Create a new kind of string, _not_ a docstring, to hold annotations, etc.
> 
> """@annotate whatever""" or even ""@" whatever"""

The first is a valid string literal now, and thus gets the same fate
as [decorators] -- lots of people get very uncomfortable at the
ambiguity of assigning a new meaning to something that was legal
syntax before (even if it was meaningless).

The second is not a valid string literal now -- doesn't that cause the
same problems for Leo as @decorators?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)