Noob question about curly braces - only peripheral to weewx

[n7uv...@gmail.com]

I have no idea what I'm talking about here. However, while tweaking various .html.tmpl and .inc files, I saw this in celestial.html.tmpl

The leading curly brace is commented out, while the trailing mate is not. Obviously, it seems to work. Is this because (I think) Python relies upon indentation, not braces?

I removed the hashes, and it runs the same. 

Cheers -- Jon N7UV

[Tom Keffer]

You are looking at a CSS file, not a Python file. In a CSS file, the hash mark (#) is an ID Selector, not a comment. 

So, a CSS entry of

#my-heading h1 {

  font-weight: bold;

}

would use a bold font for the entity with id "my-heading":

<h1 id="my-heading">This is my heading</h1>

The hash mark (#) is used because it's analogous to an anchor reference <a href="#my-heading">.

Comments are C-style. They use surrounding /* and */;

/* This is a comment */

Hope that helps.

-tk

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[n7uv...@gmail.com]

Yes, it does. Thanks! The nano editor highlights the #'d lines in the same color as comments. My bad.

Cheers - Jon N7UV