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Hi!

Although I don't know, how to program in Python, I read the excellent post "IronPython Addin Internals" by Matt Ward, only to learn how to bind a new language to SharpDevelop. One thing that I did not understand, is about comments. I don't know how/where we define the comment character("#") for the language! Do I need this definition to use Task List feature? I tried to use Task List in a Python project, but I think it does not work! Of course, I'm not talking about LineComment property value="#" for Syntax Highlighting in .xshd file! Does SD support Task List features for Python projects?

Thank you! 

I'm assuming you're asking why TODO, HACK, FIXME comments are not added to the Task List when they're defined in Python classes or code. This is not supported for Python projects.

In order to be able to do it the parser needs to find and store these comments. There's code to do it for C# and VB.NET in the Lexer class (see specialCommentHash).

 Will this ever be supported for IronPython?

At some point. At the moment it would require each python file to be parsed twice, once for the code folding/class view and then again to get the various TODO comments. It would be good if this could be done in one step in a similar way that SharpDevelop's C# and VB.NET parsers do. I do not see a way to do that without modifying the IronPython source code.